‘Saving life for later’: Covid and conceptions of time
GENEVIEVE MORGAN explores our distorted perception of time in light of easing Covid restrictions, through the words of several notable writers. Right now, with..
ARIANA RAZAVI reflects on Colum McCann’s novel Apeirogon, in light of her own experiences of the Middle East. I stumbled across Apeirogon (2020) by chance. It..
Pravda, reality and personal mythology: Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
 ROSA APPIGNANESI ponders the notions of mythologisation and truth, and how these relate to antisemitism, through the lens of Von Rezzori’s Memoirs of an Anti-Semite...
EVIE ROBINSON explores the depiction of gun violence in the novels of American writer Jodi Picoult. Â A controversial, sensitive and polarising issue, gun violence..
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..
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..
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..
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..
