Literature

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...
How Vincent van Gogh Painted with Words
How Vincent van Gogh Painted with Words
Vincent van Gogh is known and loved by many, not only as the artist behind The Starry Night and Sunflowers, among others, but also as the troubled man who cut... Read more...
Does Shakespeare Have To Be Modernised?
Does Shakespeare Have To Be Modernised?
words by Gabriel Morrissey-Limb   Shakespeare is uniquely situated. His works are often hailed as some of, if not the, best use of the English language to ever exist. Writers,... Read more...
Your Journals Aren't Going in a Museum
Your Journals Aren't Going in a Museum
As a longtime journal fanatic (and admittedly a collector), I have grown intrigued by the trend of journalling ecosystems that has been growing on social media over the past few... Read more...
A Look Into The Gaslit Gothic Heroine
A Look Into The Gaslit Gothic Heroine
words by Inés Paris Arranz   The Gothic genre is defined by the eerie, the uncanny, and the impossibility of asserting certainty in a reality that once appeared stable. However,... Read more...
Literary Women Have Graduated From Suicidal to Unhinged
Literary Women Have Graduated From Suicidal to Unhinged
words by Chloe Milne   What does it mean for a woman to be ‘weird’? ‘Weird girl lit’, TikTok’s latest micro-trend and literary sub-genre, has attempted to answer this question,... Read more...
Haunted Times or The Revival of the Gothic
Haunted Times or The Revival of the Gothic
We live in chaotic times in which many of the structures we once believed to be permanent, in the West at least, such as democracy, social stability, the welfare system,... Read more...