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JESSICA ZHAN MEI YU But The Girl. Reviewed by Ann Skea

JESSICA ZHAN MEI YU But The Girl. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 18 Jan 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

The protagonist of Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel is meant to be writing about Sylvia Plath and race, but finds herself in Scotland with writer’s block. I was meant to be writing a postcolonial novel. It had been an immigrant novel first but I learned the word...
JULIE GOODSPEED-CHADWICK and PETER K. STEINBERG (eds) The Collected Writing of Assia Wevill. Reviewed by Ann Skea

JULIE GOODSPEED-CHADWICK and PETER K. STEINBERG (eds) The Collected Writing of Assia Wevill. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 21 Apr 2022 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

This collection brings together Assia Wevill’s writing to offer a vivid picture of her life. Assia Wevill is known to many people because of her relationship with Ted Hughes and her more difficult relationship with Sylvia Plath. There is much gossip about her but, as...

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