A Story, A Movement, A Seismic Shift – A Review of She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

‘There will be a movement’ threatened Harvey Weinstein, in retaliation to the New York Times article coming out on October 5, 2017 accusing him of over thirty years of sexual predation. There WAS a movement, surely, but not in his support, nothing like he imagined, nothing like anyone could have predicted. The #MeToo movement came…

To Be or Not To Be ‘Persuaded’: A Review of ‘Persuasion’ by Jane Austen

Ralph Waldo Emerson said about Jane Austen’s novels that they were ‘’imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English Society, without genius, wit or knowledge of the world.’’ It’s true that her books were set in the traditional Victorian society, but Austen’s study and satire of this very society is genius, and full of wit and…

On the Margins No More: A Review of The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

In The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood gives voice to Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, and her twelve maids who remained voiceless in Homer’s Odyssey. The book alternates chapters between Penelope’s monologues and singing choruses by the twelve hanged maids (by Odysseus). Atwood replays the myths to bring the marginalised into the centre of the narrative. Odysseus…