Natasha Poliszczuk

1 week ago | natashap.substack.com | Natasha Poliszczuk |Emma Gannon

What have you been reading lately? Anything I should add to my list? And how did you decide what to pick up. I ask because I’ve been reading in a very piecemeal fashion over the last couple of weeks. There’s been no system to what I’ve picked up - not even a whim has dictated. I’ve simply reached mindlessly for the next book on the towering piles that surround my desk and bedside table.

2 weeks ago | natashap.substack.com | Natasha Poliszczuk

Spring has blown in! Tubs of tulips (or I would have had I planted mine sooner), coffee in the garden, brisk river walks, laundry blowing on the washing line, blossom against blue skies. Bliss. In this fulsome spirit, I have an abundance of links and thoughts to share: they are wide-ranging, generally enthusiastic - and long, so you might have to click through to read it online or in the app.

3 weeks ago | natashap.substack.com | Natasha Poliszczuk

This post is a reflective one on motherhood - with a cheery look at some of my favourite mothers in fiction. (Controversially, Marmee March does not feature. Discuss.) With love to all mothers, and all those who mother - in whatever form that might take. Particular love to those for whom today is difficult or marked by sorrow, loss, or separation: days (and posts) like these can be difficult and you must of course protect your heart as necessary.

1 month ago | natashap.substack.com | Natasha Poliszczuk

Sounds like a very drunken dinner party, right? But is in fact a chat with the entirely excellent Elizabeth Harris, who whom I am very taken because she is ferociously smart, witty, and wise about life, relationships and the complexity of being a forty-something woman. We’re not talking about her life, incidentally (I’m not that nosy), but her novel, How to Sleep at Night.

2 months ago | natashap.substack.com | Natasha Poliszczuk |Anna James |Jessica Fellowes |Amy Abrahams

January - the month of approximately 146 days - is done. Over. Finally. As much as I might have liked to spend it hunkering down with a book (isn’t this illustration by Lore Pemberton your idea of absolute bliss? Perhaps minus the cat in my case (allergies not anathema), life and work does tend to intervene. But it is Sunday, so avail yourself of a hot cup of something and settle down for a bumper post of links and recommendations and general goodness.