To the Percy Jackson series: a (nuanced) love letter (Part I)

With Disney+’s recent announcement of Percy Jackson Season 2, Audrey Wong returns to a much beloved childhood favourite and unpacks its enduring appeal, as well as problematic points we may not necessarily have noticed in our youth.

Hope, resistance and the value of Palestinian poetry

Using six different poems of Palestinian origin, Audrey Wong unpacks the repercussions of writing—about the dead, about the living—in a war-torn environment and highlights the importance of the counter-narrative.

Literary ‘kung fu pandas’: the Chinese wuxia genre and why Westerners don’t know it (Part II)

Literary ‘kung fu pandas’: the Chinese wuxia genre and why Westerners don’t know it (Part I)

‘Otherwise, you live’: what Louise Glück tells us about death