Literature

Category: Literature

March 29, 2021

The problem with Dante’s concept of ‘sin’

MIRIAM ZEGHLACHE asks why Dante’s perception of sin in his Divine Comedy still resonates 700 years after his death. Dante Alighieri imagines in his..

March 29, 2021

Toxic Relationships: What Wuthering Heights taught me about love

MAYA WILSON AUTZEN questions whether Wuthering Heights is really such a perfect love story. Having initially read it when I was 13, I recently..

March 25, 2021

Feeling the Fear: why we prefer horror films to literature (and we might be wrong)

BARNABY HOWE advocates horror writing as he interrogates our love of horror films. Horror films hold a special place in many people’s memories. Maybe..

March 7, 2021

The Struggle for a Room of One’s Own in Lockdown

MAYA WILSON AUTZEN reflects on how Virginia Woof’s 1929 polemic A Room of One’s Own is still poignantly resonant nearly a century later. Re-reading..

February 5, 2021

Defoe, Disease and Death in London

CRESSIDA O’KELLY draws a parallel between Defoe’s account of London’s ‘Great Plague’ and today’s Covid-19 pandemic. Daniel Defoe was an eighteenth-century journalist, political polemicist..

January 20, 2021

Reflections on Rilke

ARIANA RAZAVI contemplates the enduring beauty of Rilke’s poetry. I first met Rilke in a world literature class aged sixteen, in the poem..

December 31, 2020

Why Libraries are More Important than Ever

IQRA AHMAD defends the importance of public libraries, particularly in light of the Coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this month, Walsall’s council leader Mike Bird weighed..

December 31, 2020

The Trial of Eve

MAYA WILSON AUTZEN interrogates the aetiology of the fallen woman. The Book of Genesis provides not only the origin story of the Christian world..

December 28, 2020

Review: ‘Looking for Bloomsbury’s Lost Book Shops’ at the Bloomsbury Festival

ADLEE HESHMAT reviews an online discussion about the lost bookshops of Bloomsbury, which was part of the 2020 Bloomsbury Festival’s literary programme. Beyond the..

December 10, 2020

Mary Wollstonecraft: The Silver Barbie Doll of North London?

ANNA DANG contemplates whether Maggi Hambling’s new statue of Mary Wollstonecraft does justice to the writer and activist’s legacy. London is a city that..

December 6, 2020

Review: ‘Unfinished Business’ at the British Library

FRANCESCA KURLANSKY reviews Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights at the British Library. ‘Girls are powerful’ These are the first words you..

November 12, 2020

Review: Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar

ANNA DANG reviews American writer Avni Doshi’s novel, Burnt Sugar, which has been shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize. There’s nothing quite like a..

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