Arts & Lit

Whether you’re a humanities student or not, deciphering academic essays is challenging at the best of times. One can easily be overwhelmed by the amount of information available and the often dense writing style. Jessica Holifield shares her top tips for tackling secondary resources and how to use them to your advantage.

Print Arts + Lit editor Ella Minty shares her thoughts on Delia Owen’s bestselling novel, Where the Crawdads Sing.

Have you ever wandered into a bookshop and stumbled upon a “booktok” section? Reading, thanks to social media, is now trendier than ever. Certain novels and authors, however, seem particularly popular. Our social media executive Emily Im takes a deep dive into current literary trends and what is fuelling them.

Franz Kafka claimed that “first impressions are always unreliable”, but are they? Rhian Hutchings assesses the importance of books’ opening lines and why some are more impactful than others.

Georgia Balmer discusses Eve Babitz’s life and writing, and why her work remains relevant today.

As summer is well underway, Danni Darrah writes about which books you should bring with you on your next trip to Exmouth.