literature

Online Arts & Lit Editor Violet Berney explores Irish stories that engage with the morbid and unsettling.

Mitchel Rowe covers Roxane Gay’s success and how she is a shining light for black, female and queer authors

Amy Cases explores Waterstones’s significance in the city of Exeter.

Annabel Jeffery covers a modern classic perfect for the new academic year, Sally Rooney’s Normal People.

Jasmine Aldridge shares her views on her favourite Japanese novel: Diary of a void

Rosie Batsford discusses censorship and feminist ideology in relation to Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play A Doll’s House.

Anna Kane discusses Paterson Joseph’s debut novel The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho.

Lucy Rawlings discusses the nearly lost art of writing love letters and why it is a practise we should continue.

Isabel Langguth explores the history of book banning and why it is still happening today.

At the beginning of each year, “reading more” crops up on many people’s list of resolutions. Unfortunately, many fail to keep the promises they make to themselves. M Shelton discusses how to re-ignite one’s love for books while avoiding the dreaded reading slump.