Literature

Category: Literature

November 25, 2023

Guardians of Literature: Readings from the 2023 Booker Prize Shortlist

Upon tomorrow's announcement of this year's Booker Prize winner, Literature sub-editor EMILY DRIVER discusses her impressions on the six positions shortlisted, and how those were shaped by meeting the authors at the Shortlist Readings at the Southbank Centre.

November 20, 2023

In the lull of rhetoric jazz: Slavoj Žižek in conversation

Attending a talk with Slavoj Žižek at Conway Hall, ESTER FREIDER reflects on the thinker's peculiar presence, his appeal to Gen Z, and his new book.

November 20, 2023

When friends can’t seem to find the right words: Notes on Heartbreak by Annie Lord

ANNIKA THORBORG reflects on an evening with Vogue’s dating columnist, Annie Lord, and reviews her recent book Notes on Heartbreak.

November 10, 2023

Devil in a Latex Dress: Reviewing Julia Fox’s Down the Drain

Literature Editor OLIVIA WACHOWIAK reviews Down the Drain after elusive meeting with author Julia Fox.

November 3, 2023

Bring No Clothes: In Conversation with Charlie Porter

ALICIA DORAN and CAROLINA TANI review Charlie Porter's new book, which takes the Bloomsbury group as focus and unpicks the language of clothing.

April 8, 2023

Murder and the Self: The Revival of Dark Academia

MARGOT COLELLA reflects on the driving force behind Dark Academia and the latest widespread obsession with crime in fiction.

March 27, 2023

Tucci’s Life Through Food is Flavourless and Unappetising

ZOE DAHSE reviews Stanley Tucci’s memoir, Taste: My Life Through Food.

February 4, 2022

‘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..

October 29, 2021

Non-native writing, as told by Apeirogon

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..

June 8, 2021

What happens at the point of no return?

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

March 29, 2021

The problem with Dante’s concept of ‘sin’

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..