Posts by: Rob Hardy

Bocland: on Nicola Griffith’s Menewood and Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them

Jul, 2024 | by

Stories like Menewood show us the other worlds that exist and the other worlds that are possible together.

An Attention to What Continues: Two Books on Herbaria

Dec, 2021 | by

A meditation on the collection, mounting, and exchange of botanical specimens.

Love Behind Locked Doors: Phyllis Bottome in the Age of Trump

Jan, 2017 | by

In January 1933, German President von Hindenburg offered the position of Chancellor to Adolf Hitler after his Nazi Party captured a majority of seats in the German Reichstag. In the…

The Previous Everyday: Nicola Griffith’s Hild

Sep, 2014 | by

In Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine, Naomi Schor explores the connection between detail and female identity in art and literature. Schor argues that detail can be threatening in its…

Out of Body: Reading Gender Through “Women’s Fiction”

Mar, 2014 | by

It was a book my two boys wanted me to read to them over and over again: the story of how Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Ann, dug…