EVIE ROBINSON explores the depiction of gun violence in the novels of American writer Jodi Picoult. A controversial, sensitive and polarising issue, gun violence..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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