Catherine Taylor

New Zealand, Sheffield

Writer, Journalist and Editor at Freelance

Writer. Memoir The Stirrings @wnbooks winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize. Former dep dir @englishpen Agent: @eleanorbirne @rcwlitagency

Articles

We Would Have Told Each Other Everything — Judith Hermann’s fascinating mix of memoir and autofiction

1 week ago | ft.com | Catherine Taylor

German writer Judith Hermann’s new book is a fascinating creature.
Crypto ATM scams targeting older adults are on the rise. This bill offers protection.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Catherine Taylor

The decentralized cryptocurrency financial system means that if you get scammed, it’s very hard to get your money back. (Getty image)AARP’s mission is to empower people to choose how we live as we age. Financial security in retirement is essential to that empowerment. That’s why AARP works hard to ensure that people don’t lose their nest eggs to fraud.
Imagine the Cultural Revolution as directed by Quentin Tarantino

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Catherine Taylor

The new novel from Yu Hua, one of China's bestselling writers, is a curious beast: part-traditional parable, part-Quentin Tarantino. Yu divides City of Fiction, a story of love and sacrifice, into one section before 1912 and one just after. It was in that year that the last emperor abdicated and the Republic of China took root - ending almost 2,000 years of imperial rule. This is a moment of violent uprising, as the old order makes way for the new.
With H5N1 2.3.4.4b causing chaos overseas, the hunt for the next pandemic is on our shores

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Catherine Taylor

Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next pandemic. Along the untamed coast of southern Victoria, where thyme rice-flower and coast daisy hustle for space and mud flats melt into aqua ocean, a team of birdwatchers is searching for an invisible enemy.
Call Me Ishmaelle — Moby-Dick enters new waters

4 weeks ago | ft.com | Catherine Taylor

In 1848, 18-year-old Rebecca Ann Johnson sailed out of Nantucket, Massachusetts as part of the crew of a whaling ship.
Universality by Natasha Brown

4 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Catherine Taylor

Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
should we still read her?

1 month ago | msn.com | Catherine Taylor

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should we still read her?

1 month ago | msn.com | Catherine Taylor

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
Theory & Practice — Michelle de Kretser’s powerful new novel

2 months ago | ft.com | Catherine Taylor

A book that uses literary post-structuralism as its main theme while playfully subverting the limitations of that movement does not...
With JFK assassination documents about to be released, America's conspiracy theory obsession hits its zenith

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Catherine Taylor

Before Donald Trump jumped on the bandwagon, suspicions have long surrounded some of America's biggest stories. How many people can keep a secret before it completely explodes? Two, three? A couple of hundred? Maybe thousands plus a few government agencies? How about successive governments of both stripes for decades? What about today with the rise of mobile phones and instantaneous communication making sharing all the more tempting — never mind the foreign hackers who might be listening in?