Popped into IMMA to see the Cecilia Vicuña exhibition before it closes (Sunday July 5). Ecofeminism, eroticism, poetry and rage against corporate greed. So invigorating! (And a surprise, Leonora Carrington’s little golden dragon, a nod to the connexion the 2 women made when they met in the 60s)

My thoughts on Barbara Pym's THE SWEET DOVE DIED, the current read for @joiedevivre9.bsky.social's #NYRBWomen26 Top-tier Pym. A charming, poignant, beautifully written novel about the narrowing opportunities for love as we age & lose our lustre. #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/t...

Joining in with #nyrbwomen26 July read 📖 this will be my 2nd Pym (after Excellent Women), slightly apprehensive as I’ve not felt in the mood for my midcentury ladies lately. Hope this will get me back on track #booksky

What I watched in June 📺 #filmsky

We are honored by the number of our books in this list— Diane Williams's I Liked Rex Dash Shaw's Like Swimmers Brian Dillon's Ambivalence Tom McCarthy's The Rhyl Poster Barbara Trapido's Brother of the More Famous Jack Leonora Carrington's Opus Sinestrus Yuri Andrukhovych's Radio Nights

The books I read in June (the Plath was a reread) #booksky #nyrbwomen26 📚

This is also the UK cover, both out Jan 12, 2027. She will need all your support. It's is a gospel according to the workers abt the erosion of any path to meaningful labour & housing and the breakdown in human relations. Except it ain't po-faced. It's funny, inventive and as surreal + barmy as life

“Being pleased doesn’t strike me as the appropriate response to the idea of sneaking off to a love nest with your lover,” said Billy. “What is the appropriate response?” I said. “Oh,” Billy said, her voice now blithe, “sorrow, guilt, horror, anticipation.” — Another Marvelous thing, Laurie Colwin

How to talk about this novel? Cagnati is one of those rare and fiercely brave authors. She dives deep into the pain and loss of women discarded and used over and over after being labeled ‘crazy’ by society. A difficult read but well worth it. #NYRBWomen26

Fancy a Very Good Book for every year of the 20th century? Well, here you go! www.stuckinabook.com/a-century-of...

New on the blog today, thoughts on LADIES OF THE RACHMANINOFF EYES by Henry Van Dyke. A fabulous coming-of-age story featuring a precocious black teen raised by 2 eccentric women in 1960s US. Witty, barbed, tender & poignant, a 5-star knockout read for me! jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/l...

'People’s conduct was scrutinized and their behaviour analysed in minute detail, including the most personal traits; these signs were gathered and interpreted, shaping the history of other people.' #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/s...

#booksky has anyone read either of these Turkish authors? Thoughts?

Half way through Sun City #nyrbwomen26 this has such an end of time vibes. It is set in an old folks home in Florida, a fertile playground for Jansson and her beloved themes of isolation, alienation and human pettiness.

Beautiful bijou LEONORA CARRINGTON exhibition (THE SYMPTOMATIC SURREAL) at London’s Freud Museum yesterday. Carrington’s drawings (sketched during the time she spent in a Spanish sanatorium) are ghostly and ethereal. DOWN BELOW (1940) is also on display - so haunting and surreal. #Art #ArtSky

Petition from @foeireland.bsky.social for govt to put a "moratorium on new data centres, place firm limits on the expansion of existing facilities, and prioritise the energy security and affordability needs of ordinary people over the interests of Big Tech": www.friendsoftheearth.ie/act/no-more-...

All the books I bought a month ago in Hay on Wye...

Salinger’s son and executor Matt was keen to manage readers’ expectations in this interview last year

The films I watched in May 📺 #filmsky

Books are proof that solitude does not have to be lonely. Sometimes it has chapters, footnotes and a protagonist making terrible decisions so you don’t have to.

New on the blog today, my thoughts on THE BATTLE OF THE VILLA FLORITA by Rumer Godden. An immersive, evocative, psychologically astute novel about the impact of a woman’s adulterous affair & subsequent divorce on her children. A 5-star knockout read for me! jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/t...

On Renata Adler's commas, and style, the author within the writing.

After years of finding US publishers uninterested in Dorothy Richardson's modernist masterpiece, Pilgrimage, I decided to reissue it myself. Here are some reflections on why I feel so passionate about Pilgrimage and becoming its first US publisher in 50 years. neglectedbooks.com/?...

The Books I read in May 📚 #booksky #nyrbwomen26

A Tove Jansson that I haven't read (!!!)... Our next #NYRBWomen26 book is SUN CITY by Tove Jansson. Here's our page guide. "Through its quiet clarity we see unreachable depths, threatening darkness, promised treasures." -- Ursula K. Le Guin on Tove's prose.

This is an immensely sad but beautiful novel about a young girl's unconditional love for her mother. Poor Marie! I read this for #NYRBWomen26. My new blog post: readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/c...

I agree the Granta AI story is bad for the reasons people are literally nonsensical (similar to OpenAI metafiction story)—but also… man, it does not have a story. There’s no narrative. It does read like a parody of a certain type of poet-turned-novelist fiction.

"I always wanted to tell her that I was there waiting for her, that I was so happy, so happy that she had come back this night again, that me, I loved her. But her face was full of silence." #NYRBWomen26 This book is beautiful but also incredibly sad!

I’m sure you’re aware of this, but the Dora Carrington painting on the front cover of the NYRB Classics edition is on display at Tate Britain. I was looking at it earlier this week! #NYRBWomen26 #BookSky 💙📚

#NYRBWomen26 “I will take you to the islands of childhood, amid the perfume of frangipani. I will lead you deep into the caves where the sea comes to die in the shade of gardens of wild orange trees. We will sleep with the song of the wind in the casuarinas on the hills.” -> Also, this book is 💔😭!!

The third volume of Solvej Balle's On The Calculation of Volume is as extraordinary as the first two: www.stuckinabook.com/on-the-calcu...

‘The narrator’s existence has the fey quality of a fairy tale. But if there are elements of a childhood fantasy in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭, it also has a dystopian undercurrent.’ Becca Rothfeld on the Austrian novelist Marlen Haushofer. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Just finished Elliott Chaze’s BLACK WINGS HAS MY ANGEL, written in 1953, which is absolutely extraordinary. It’s a visceral & existential noir which had my heart beating so fast at times I had to stop reading. There are car chases, lovers on the run, bank heists, prison time, torture, (1)

1st week with Crazy Genie by Inès Cagnati #nyrbwomen26 / on my mind, a previous nyrbwomen read, Lies & Sorcery, where love-starved daughters are clinging to their emotionally absent mothers for any scraps of attention 💔 those nonlinear vignettes and their beautiful seasonality… 1/2

New on the blog today, I've written about more of my favourite London novels. Including books by Barbara Comyns, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark and many more! #BookSky #London 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/l...

Exciting news: We’ll be starting the next phase of #AContinuation on February 1 & all are welcome to join! Page guide to come soon! @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social

Favourite films watched in 2025 🎬 #filmsky

December on my screen 📺 #filmsky

The books I read in October, November and December (not pictured: 📱 @ivygrimes.bsky.social - The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion, 🎧 Neville Jason - The Life and Work of Marcel Proust, 🎧 Alain de Botton - How Proust Can Change Your Life) 📚 #booksky

A lovely book list full of ideas to start 2026 in the best way possible 💫. #booksky

Top 12 books I read in 2025 📚 🫠💕 (not pictured: Tove Ditlevsen, The Trouble with Happiness, tr. Michael Favala Goldman) #booksky

Read this book for this year's #SpinsterSeptember and loved it (thanks for the recommendation @pear-jelly.bsky.social )

#NYRBWomen25 I finished THE JUNIPER TREE this morning, Barbara Comyns’s final novel published when she was 77yo. It’s everything I love about her writing. Here are a few rabbit holes I went down while reading this enchanting retelling.

Chat I really think we had some interesting stuff to say here. How to talk about a book that isn’t especially interested in making sense?

The books I read in September 📚 (not pictured: 🎧 Rural Hours by Harriet Baker) #booksky #spinsterseptember #womenintranslation

Two Serious Ladies was my fave #spinsterseptember read. It was unusual as it shows little to no interiority from the characters. Felt like watching a Lynch movie: eerie, unpredictable, full of dread, at times disturbing but pregnant with meaning. A stumbling & hypnotising f*** you to conventions.

The three books I read for #spinsterseptember 🍏 #booksky

I only managed to read „Lolly Willowes“ for #spinsterseptember (AT LAST!), but the hashtag contains so many interesting titles, I‘m doing #spinsterautumn .

#spinsterseptember rec from @blithespirit4.bsky.social