Pip Adam

Guest writer

Pip Adam is the author of three books: a collection of short stories Everything We Hoped For (VUP, 2010), and the novels I’m Working on a Building (VUP, 2013) and The New Animals (VUP, 2017) which won the 2018 Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction. Pip makes the podcast Better off Read (https://betterreadnz.wordpress.com/)

Netflix’s Ripley is the most controversial adaptation yet – it’s also the best

Netflix’s Ripley is the most controversial adaptation yet – it’s also the best

'This Ripley is not charming, he doesn’t have the gift of the gab ... instead his criminal competence seems to come from an immunity to what other people think of him.'

By Pip Adam | 17th April, 2024

Pip Adam and her new novel, Nothing to See (Photo: Ebony Lamb)

‘How the fuck do you make a quiche?’ An extract from Pip Adam’s new novel

Three flatmates make their first foray into cooking, with help from Alison Holst.

By Pip Adam | 9th June, 2020

Untold Night and Day / 알려지지 않은 밤과 하루 by Bae Suah

Fever dream: Pip Adam on Bae Suah and the art of translation

Pip Adam approaches a new translator with a profound unease.

By Pip Adam | 23rd April, 2020

Madonna, Harvey Weinstein and Gwyneth Paltrow at the 1998 Golden Globes after-party. Image: Patrick McMullan, Getty.

She liked it, she wanted it: The complex terrors of Mary Gaitskill’s This is Pleasure

'I finished This is Pleasure at about 4am on a Sunday. I hadn’t been able to sleep – I’d had an uncomfortable interaction with a powerful person, and it was keeping me awake ...'. Pip Adam on a book that challenged and changed her.

By Pip Adam | 29th January, 2020

Now begins the reign of The Testaments. Photo: Tolga Akmen/Getty

The Testaments: Pip Adam reviews the ultra-hyped new Margaret Atwood

One of our country’s finest writers gorges herself on Gilead – and finds herself wishing for more osmosis between the Booker-shortlisted new novel and the horror-story politics playing out around us.

By Pip Adam | 16th September, 2019