by NRB | 13 Dec 2018 | Non-fiction |
Feminist Roxane Gay brings together dispatches from the front lines of rape culture. This anthology of personal essays asks one of the harder questions about rape: ‘What is it like to live in a culture where it often seems it is a question of when, not if, a...
by NRB | 24 Aug 2017 | Non-fiction |
The gruelling honesty and intense focus of Hunger invite self-reflection in the reader. Roxane Gay has a gift for observation and the ability to articulate her thoughts into beautiful writing, no matter how ghastly the revelation. That she can find humour or hope in...
by NRB | 30 Mar 2017 | Fiction |
Women’s difficult lives are laid bare with a surgeon’s precision in this collection. This is a collection of 21 short stories about women in relation to the men in their worlds. I had to think long and hard about the title. The more I read the stories, the...
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