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“... bed every night and it is used as if there were an infant in it.’In​ Conceiving Histories, Isabel Davis looks into the history of conception and finds that people in the past were generally calmer about the not-knowing, about the interminable waiting and doubt. She tells her own story of trying to get pregnant, a story marked by inconclusive test ...”

“... of the peoples oppressed, displaced and eradicated by settler colonialism and its aftermath.Isabel Wilkerson’s bestselling books – The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents – are, like the NMAAHC, situated within a gated community of knowledge. The Warmth of Other Suns ...”

“... of Lucy Ellmann’s new novel is one of an increasingly rare breed in modern fiction – a virgin. Isabel is a thirty-something art history student, prim, gauche, improbably starry-eyed, impossibly self-obsessed, a junior version of the Anita Brookner wallflower (i.e. not yet prepared to consign herself to the sad margins of singlehood). But whereas the ...”

“... or social organisation and political direction?’ ‘Disciplined extrapolation’, a phrase Mike Davis has used about Butler’s method in the Parables, gets at it much better. She extrapolates from what she sees in the world around her, she extrapolates from her reading, she extrapolates from painful personal experience, and all of it so measuredly, it’s ...”