Archive - Books + Bits

Book Chat with Bobby: Erasure by Percival Everett

We deep dive the 2001 novel behind American Fiction

16 hrs ago •

Your summer reading list, part 4

New books for August. Also: sparklemuffins, brat girls and what to do with the work of Alice Munro

Jul 23 •

On smartphones, teenagers and anxiety

An interview with Jonathan Haidt about The Anxious Generation. Plus a grab bag of culchy recs

Jul 13 •

Ask Me Anything!

Jul 9 •

Ask Me Anything!

Jul 5 •

June 2024

Movie thoughts: a trio in review

One made my sob my heart out and another irritated the hell out of me

Jun 30 •

Your summer reading list, part 3

On peri-menopause, cam work and loving a serial killer

Jun 26 •

10 things giving me joy right now

summer salads, my mum's vintage books, and my Jellycat doppelgänger

Jun 16 •

Your summer reading list, part 2

Also: a spicy Netflix doc, a fascinating pod and the return of a noughties heartthrob

Jun 12 •

The great '90s movie project

My husband I are re-watching the decade's finest. And it might take us 2 years

Jun 8 •

May 2024

Parenting a reader

How prescriptive should you be about what your newly-reading child reads?

May 31 •

Your summer reading list, part 1

3 new novels, a great pod, my favourite room + an astonishing interview with the premier "pronatalists"

May 28 •

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