Literature

Size Matters
Size Matters
I don’t have any tattoos on my body, but I always thought that if I did, I would get something related to Dostoyevsky. After another Zimmer writer published his piece... Read more...
Who Are We Without a Little Bit of Gossip?
Who Are We Without a Little Bit of Gossip?
Slutty Cheff is an anonymous chef-turned-author who most recently wrote a novel called Tart (2026). Set against the high-octane backdrop of a few modern professional kitchens in London, the novel... Read more...
Out of Mind, Out of Sight
Out of Mind, Out of Sight
“As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker. Is that what they mean by memories?”¹ What good is knowledge? What good is knowledge if I... Read more...
Miriam Roth and the Wisdom of Balloons
Miriam Roth and the Wisdom of Balloons
When a balloon pops, a child's world briefly comes to a halt. In the space of a heartbeat comes surprise, confusion, grief, curiosity, and, eventually, acceptance. One moment, it is... Read more...
Literature Will Always Find A Way
Literature Will Always Find A Way
Literature has always needed somewhere to happen.  Clusters of burnt red brick, stone, wood, and tiles spread across 23 hectares of land to create the Nalanda Mahāvihāra. Between the 5th... Read more...
The Double-Edged Power of the Literary Hand
The Double-Edged Power of the Literary Hand
The ‘hand touch’ is the holy grail of romantic tension. Countless videos, edits, essays and replays have dissected  Matthew Macfadyen's iconic hand flex as Mr. Darcy in the 2005 film... Read more...
Reading is not special, and you’re not special for reading
Reading is not special, and you’re not special for reading
There is much continuous cultural conversation surrounding reading and contemporary reading habits. Often, the reading behaviours of young people are given imposed labels. You may prefer to read romance or... Read more...
‘Finding a sense of intimacy with them’ — Do we have a relationship with what we read?
‘Finding a sense of intimacy with them’ — Do we have a relationship with what we read?
“This book saw me” “This book ruined me” “This book changed me” Scroll through Instagram or 'BookTok'—the fiction fans of TikTok today—and you might find that the way we discuss... Read more...
My TBR Is Hornier Than You
My TBR Is Hornier Than You
As an avid reader and a shameful TikTok doomscroller, a lot of my reading recommendations these past two years have come from ‘BookTok’. For anyone unfamiliar with the term, ‘BookTok’... Read more...
Language, Land, and Legitimacy in Frontier Literature
Language, Land, and Legitimacy in Frontier Literature
The American frontier is, and has always been, a place of scope and complicated mythologies. Thanks to Western cinema, the glorious scale of this huge landscape has been populated with... Read more...
'We Cannot Just Walk Into The Cavern' — Are Novelists the New Philosophers?
'We Cannot Just Walk Into The Cavern' — Are Novelists the New Philosophers?
In The Sea, The Sea, James tells his cousin Charles Arrowby: “We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than... Read more...
Zora Neale Hurston’s Resistance and Celebration of Black Culture and Language
Zora Neale Hurston’s Resistance and Celebration of Black Culture and Language
I first encountered Zora Neale Hurston's words purely by chance. In a London bookshop, a beautiful edition of Their Eyes Were Watching God caught my attention. Its cover — gold... Read more...