‘Soul’s therapy’: the confessional poets and mental health

Jane Rance explores the lives of three American poets and how their writing encouraged open conversations about mental health.

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.

The phenomenon of #BookTok

Literary genres: Necessary or restrictive?

Dissolving the boundaries of friendship: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels

Should we be able to give books a bad review?

Hope, resistance and the value of Palestinian poetry

Blind in the mind – what it’s like to read with Aphantasia

The halo effect in Eliza Clark’s ‘Boy Parts’

The tragedy of Ophelia: Breaking her silence