Emma Alexander: be flayed, learn to be alone

I like the doubleness of that: Hanif Kureishi

Competition: Win signed copies of Ocean Vuong, Lisa Taddeo & Hanif Kureishi

It’s her gaze on him: Kate Morrison on writing a black historical heroine

Violent heroes: Author David Keenan

Kinky mothering & children who don’t belong to anybody: Sophie A. Lewis

Lost Bi in the Woods – Luke Turner

Nicola Barker’s Madonna: Magnificent Incoherence

Radiant Shame: the performance of femininity, with Rhyannon Styles