Literature

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...
What’s in a name, if no one remembers?
What’s in a name, if no one remembers?
Today, when someone says they like to read, the first assumption is that they mean novels. Even though non-fiction, poetry, journalism, memoirs, and even plays are still widely read, the... Read more...
Toni Morrison’s Praise of Writer’s Block
Toni Morrison’s Praise of Writer’s Block
words by Millie Harris   I keep a running list of habits I blame for my writer’s block: lack of sleep, too much coffee, too little coffee, the internet, my... Read more...
Why I have a tattoo of James Joyce
Why I have a tattoo of James Joyce
I love Joyce because he has forced me to face everything with the tenderness that one must employ in a world such as this. His words, though rough and sometimes... Read more...
Why Do We Walk Away From Suffering?
Why Do We Walk Away From Suffering?
You can leave the theatre, but the suffering will still continue. Sarah Kane’s Blasted (1995) asks what turning away really costs us.   Read more...
Denial is a river in Egypt, “Your husband’s a homo”
Denial is a river in Egypt, “Your husband’s a homo”
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America is vast, feverish, and human — a play where politics, theology, desire, and illness collide. Returning to it again and again, I’m struck less by... Read more...
A Nation Emerging as Rhythm: Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s search for Caribbean poetry
A Nation Emerging as Rhythm: Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s search for Caribbean poetry
Brathwaite’s whole text is not really a prescription on how to write if you are Caribbean; it is a celebration of the different references and the rich culture that exists... Read more...