Isaac Bettridge discuss the arrival of the new decade with a look back to the phenomenal era of the 1920s.
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Christmas Literature
Jessica Learmont explores the sentimental nature of Christmas literature and her favourite Christmas books.
Literature of the Decade
Continuing our Print counterparts Literature of the Decade feature, our writers review some of their favourite literature of the last ten years. Imogen Williams reviews Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’.
First Impressions
Molly Clearly explores the importance of opening lines and discusses some of her favourites.
Audio V Print: The Consumption of Literature
George Clark, Print Comment Editor, discusses the debate of audiobooks versus physical books and how they are different rather than a copy of the other.
Can reading affect eating disorders?
Freda Worrell explores both the positive and negative impacts that reading can have on people with eating disorders.
Black History Month Literature
In celebration of Black History Month, Emily Pirie looks at Alice Walker’s ‘The Colour Purple’.
The Future Library
Courtney Priday discusses The Future Library and what it means for the present literary world and in the future.
Sci-fi and sci-fiction
Elinor Jones explores the genre of science-fiction and how it has often predicted future scientific advances.
Digital Neologisms
Amy Butterworth explores the world of emojis and their potential engulfing of the literary world as we know it The ever-iconic Gina Linetti from ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ made an attempt at incorporating emoji-speak into her verbal lexicon: “the English language cannot capture the depth and complexity of my thoughts”, she says. Thus, a ‘winky-face’ 😉 here […]