Winnie the Pooh: beneath the Hundred Acre Wood.
“When you are a bear of very little brain, and you think of things, you find sometimes that a thing which seemed very thingish inside you is quite different when…
Literature
Campus lives: books about university students for university students
Jane Rance discusses her favourite books about being an undergraduate student.
‘Otherwise, you live’: what Louise Glück tells us about death
In light of the great poet's passing, Audrey Wong examines how Glück's own words provide consolation about mortality.
The perfect books for this autumn
As the leaves turn crisp and orange, and the chill of the air turns our fingers blue with cold, nothing is more appealing than curling up under a blanket and…
Romeo and Juliet – is it really a love story?
William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ – perhaps the most well-known love story of all time. A tragic tale of young love, of intense feeling and all-consuming emotion, where the depth…
Far from nursery rhymes: William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’
How William Blake's poems about nature and children also comment upon representations of God and criticise the government.
‘Living in squares, loving in triangles’: the literary legacy of the Bloomsbury Group
In the elegant town houses and garden squares of Edwardian London, an eccentric circle of writers, intellectuals and artists gathered in a haze of dinner parties and entangled love affairs.…
A deep dive into the Women’s Prize longlist
Amy Whitaker shares her thoughts on the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist.
Valentine’s Day in literature: sickeningly sweet or comically cruel?
Edie Gilmour explores the often funny and tragic portrayal of Valentine's Day in literature.
A lost generation: the literary landscape of 1920s Paris
Edie Gilmour explores the community of writers, or 'Lost Generation', living in Paris in the 1920s.