Tess Little

‘Ihave no journalistic ability,’ Malachi Whitaker wrote in her memoir, And So Did I (1939), ‘and could not tell a good story to save my life.’ By this point she had published four collections of short stories with Jonathan Cape. In a review of her first book, Frost in April (1929), Vita Sackville-West called her a ‘born writer’ and praised her stories as...

The​ rape kit is a cardboard box containing ordinary items anyone might own: envelopes, combs, swabs, nail clippers. But the packaging together of these things in Chicago in the 1970s enabled the standardisation of evidence collection following a sexual assault, greatly increasing the likelihood of prosecution. At the time, US state laws tended to define rape as something that occurs when...