10th December 2022
Georgia McHaffie recommends books to get you in the festive spirit. I firmly believe that Christmas is the best holiday for a book lover. Our natural habitat, snuggled under a cosy blanket next to a (in my case, imagined) fire, is much more socially acceptable when you can finally feel the frost outside. So, to ...
20th November 2022
Angelica gives her perspective on reading Glaswegian literature as someone who moved here for University. Douglas Stuart’s novel Shuggie Bain, which won the Booker Prize in 2020, joins a long list of rich, and at times, dark, depictions of Glasgow in literature. His story was rejected by 30 publishers before going on to be the ...
28th October 2022
Angelica Kerr explores the best of Halloween: the stories. As a birthday treat, my mother invites us to sit down with her and watch The Shining: Stanley Kubrick’s film of Stephen King’s great horror classic. Just as roses and peonies are blooming and baby birds are tweeting, at my house we gather around to enjoy ...
20th September 2022
Which classics can grip students’ attention as they start university? Even if you haven’t attempted one of the classics, it is generally agreed that they have a reputation for being wordy, sluggish, and all-together very long. Sometimes, that would be true. Dracula, a deceptively lengthy and action-less book, almost killed me. Classics require care and ...
20th September 2022
Our writer Eve attends Olivia Laing’s first in-person event since the pandemic, exploring the retrospective relevance of her work on loneliness as well as her unusual approach to writing. I read Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City last summer, during the tentative period after the second lockdown had eased. Laing’s part memoir, part art historical essay, ...
3rd May 2022
Aysha Sohail investigates how reading books can be beneficial to students’ health. Have you ever read a book that felt like a tonic for the soul? Something you could dip into and feel the stress fade away? There may be more science in it than you think – reading has been proven to bring you ...
8th March 2022
Xandie Kuenning explores classics by women in resistance to the male-dominated literary canon. It is a clear and undeniable fact that classic literature is dominated by male authors. Sure, there are the Austens and the Brontës of the literary world, but generally speaking, most recognized writers are men. This International Women’s Day, let us look ...
15th February 2022
Divya explores what is gained and lost when translating between different mediums: literature and cinema/television. *Spoiler alert* Content warning: Suicide My standard response after watching several adaptations of great books has long been: “The book was better.” However, the 2020 series Normal People served to challenge that view by being nearly as good as the ...
14th February 2022
Leah Hart talks us through the best love stories to accompany you this Valentine’s Day. With the return of February, we once again meet that blessed day of romance that follows the gloomy month of January. With midterms looming and a higher likelihood of being hit by Covid’s arrow than Cupid’s, what better time for ...
9th February 2022
Kate McIntosh gives us the rundown on books we can look forward to in 2022. As 2022 begins, no-one can be sure what the year will bring – but one thing we do know is that there are lots of literary treats to look forward to. Here’s a quick rundown of our most promising picks. ...