Maria Albano
Maria Albano is a recent graduate and freelance writer.
Writing outside the box
Elena Ferrante’s essay collection is an exploration of the delights and constraints of form
Will the real Elena Ferrante please sit down?
It is her words and voice, not her purported identity, that matter to her fans
Woolf: heart or brain?
Unfettered praise of Virginia Woolf as a “liberated writer” has paved the way for an inexplicably popular type of bad writing
The central myth of Conservative centrism
The Conservatives are not suffering because they are too right-wing
Culture war, what is it good for?
Women will continue to battle for our rights
The spy who came in from the coast
Defector Natalie Elphicke leaves the Circus to join the pinkos
Hurray for the Murrays
It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays
How to make marriage less taxing
We should let young couples keep more of their own money
The new Stalinism?
Far left tactics are shifting in a more centralised, disruptive direction
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Anarchy in the UK
Until the Siege of Sidney Street, anarchism had been tolerated in England