More Than A Love Story: Normal People, Revisited
Although Sally Rooney’s hit novel ‘Normal People’ was released in 2018, it has had a slight renaissance in the past couple years in the...
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The Strand Magazine
- Dec 1, 2023
- 10 min
STRAND Magazine Arts and Culture Roundup 2023: Our Top Picks From This Year
Image courtesy of Ian Schneider via Unsplash (licensed under Unsplash License) It's the most wonderful time of the year, as I'm sure the...
Iesa Rahman
- Nov 15, 2023
- 6 min
The Grey and Green: Victorian Imagery in Dishonored
Dishonored offers a unique perspective on the Victorian era, blending themes of morality, class struggles, and patriarchy.
Ellie Dempster
- Oct 30, 2023
- 4 min
Birdsong
Photo by Grigoriy on Pexels When the birds in the trees sang in the morning I decided to leave, I listened. Their singing, I’ve heard,...
Isabelle Ragnetti
- Oct 11, 2023
- 4 min
London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre
Photo by Tom Hermans (licensed under Unsplash Licence) From the 18th to the 29th of October 2023, the London Literature Festival returns...
Lara Mae Simpson
- Aug 9, 2023
- 5 min
Where Else: International Hong Kong Poetry at the National Poetry Library
What does it mean to be a poet connected to Hong Kong? This is the key question of Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry...
Ellie Dempster
- Jun 29, 2023
- 5 min
Through the Looking Glass: The Reflection of Women in a Pornographic World
Photo by Rob Corder via Flickr (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) "I think we're about to have the biggest show of the summer"...
Lara Mae Simpson
- Oct 11, 2022
- 4 min
She and Her Cat: Makoto Shinkai’s Debut Novel Review
Nobody captures life’s beauty like Makoto Shinkai. I remember watching Your Name in the cinema in 2016, completely mesmerised by the...
Lara Mae Simpson
- Sep 28, 2022
- 4 min
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz: A Dazzling Portrait of Lesbians Through Time
Welcome book lovers, you are among friends. We all know this sign. But at Foyles Charing Cross Road, from 14th July to 15th August, an...
Bianca Layog
- Sep 19, 2022
- 4 min
The Promise of Escape: Reviewing Mizuki Tsujimura’s Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Mizuki Tsujimura’s Lonely Castle in the Mirror follows Kokoro, a 7th grader at Yukishina No. 5 Junior High School. After having been...
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