Literary genres: Necessary or restrictive?
With an approximate number of 4 million books being published every year, originality is hard to come by. The confining idea that we must fit books into specific genres is…
Literature
Dissolving the boundaries of friendship: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels
Jane Rance discusses why Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels have achieved so much critical acclaim.
Should we be able to give books a bad review?
In this article, the Editor-in-Chief discusses the pressing debate surrounding whether we should be able to leave books a public negative review, following the Cait Corrain scandal.
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.
The power of rhyme
Rhyme is a powerful device within poetry. It impacts the way you read a poem and adds meaning behind the words a poet writes. The rhymes within a poem can…
Blind in the mind – what it’s like to read with Aphantasia
Blind in the mind – what it’s like to read with Aphantasia. “I describe it thus: think about walking through your house in the middle of the night when all…
The halo effect in Eliza Clark’s ‘Boy Parts’
In this article, Kirsten discusses the psychological term 'the halo effect' in relation to Eliza Clark's debut novel 'Boy Parts.'
The tragedy of Ophelia: Breaking her silence
It came to my attention while sitting in an English lecture on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which my lecturers dove into Hamlet’s existentialism and quest for revenge, that this play was…
Beautiful Books about Elephants
For those who love reading and love elephants – as all the best people do – then the following books might just be the sort of stories you’ll enjoy! Running…
The controversial message of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead
Jane Rance explores how the protagonist of The Fountainhead acts according to the author's views of individualism and how this can be problematic.