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Francesca Wade

Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting (2020) and Gertrude Stein: an Afterlife, published by Faber in May 2025.

Books , Features , Thematic Essays
The Man Who Made the News Novelesque

Before Twitter, Félix Fénéon’s daily ‘novels in three lines’ made a literary art form of current affairs

BY Francesca Wade |
Profiles
A Collar, A Tie and an Eton Crop: Who Was Nancy Morris?

An out lesbian in the 1920s, Morris threw parties with the Bloomsbury Set and smoked opium with Jean Cocteau – but her story has largely been forgotten

BY Francesca Wade |
Culture Digest
I Must Be Living Twice

The final part of this week's Culture Digest looks at two recently reissued books by Eileen Myles

BY Francesca Wade |
Culture Digest
Multiple Choice

The second instalment of this week's Culture Digest looks at the latest book from experimental Chilean author Alejandro Zambra

BY Francesca Wade |
Culture Digest
Transit

The first of this week's three book columns looks at the second instalment of Rachel Cusk's trilogy

BY Francesca Wade |