Doomscrolling: COVID-19 and Crisis Reading

Doomscrolling: COVID-19 and Crisis Reading

With roughly one third of the world’s population currently living under lockdown, 2020 has already brought a greater simultaneous disruption to people’s lives than most of us can remember. Stuck inside our homes for the best part of the day, those of us who are not...
Three Books Under Lockdown

Three Books Under Lockdown

(Because one is never enough) Has my reading changed under lockdown? Four or five weeks ago, I might have said yes, I’m reading the kind of books I read on holiday. This is how my first book, Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror & the Light (4th Estate, 2020), found its way...