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A review of 'Notes of a Native Son' by James Baldwin (1955)
Baldwin has left us with a collection of essays that, to me, reads like an accidental love letter to his father and ancestors.
Aanya Mitra
Jan 7, 20242 min read
A review of 'Conversations in Bloomsbury' by Mulk Raj Anand (1981)
It compels us, as readers, to reevaluate, perhaps, the sometimes blissful ignorance of our literary heroes.
Aanya Mitra
Jan 6, 20243 min read
A review of 'Woods etc.' by Alice Oswald (2005)
Oswald seeks to illuminate the wonder and beauty of nature (though not without some angst) as well as the human place within it.
Alfred Goodwin
Jan 5, 20243 min read
A review of 'Her Body & Other Parties', by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)
Machado’s characters don’t behave like regular people. Perhaps that’s what makes this collection so irresistible.
Hugo Donnelly
Jan 5, 20243 min read
A review of 'The Godfather', by Mario Puzo (1969)
Loyalty is no longer a virtue earned, but at the mercy of a coin toss- but not to worry! There are enough heads to go around.
Aanya Mitra
Oct 9, 20234 min read
The Radical Restoration: Dworkin’s ‘Intercourse’ & Female Sexuality in the Seventeenth-Century
By Olivia Whitelaw Author Biography: Olivia Whitelaw is a recent graduate of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her...
Olivia Whitelaw
Oct 2, 20231 min read
In what ways do Northern Irish poets engage issues of Gender?
By Hollie Johnston Author Biography: Hollie Johnston is a fourth-year student studying French and English Literature who was born and...
Hollie Johnston
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Of Mimicry And (Wo)Man: The Location of Motherwork in Colonial Mimicry
By Prune Engérant Author Biography: Prune Engérant is a fourth year student at the University of Edinburgh, studying History of Art and...
Prune Engérant
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Authorial Presence within the Works of Samuel Beckett and Sarah Kane
By Aimee Parrett Author Biography: Aimee Parrett is a fourth-year student of English Literature and History from Australia and Scotland....
Aimee Parrett
Oct 2, 20231 min read
The Dangers of Female Sexuality: Contagion, Infection, and Disease in Gothic Vampire Narratives
By Jasmine Niblett Author Biography: Jasmine Niblett is a 4th year English Literature and History student from Germany. Finishing up her...
Jasmine Niblett
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Eliot, Hughes, and Problems of Poetic Difficulty
By Will Staveley Author Biography: Will Staveley is a final year student at the University of Edinburgh, studying English Literature....
Will Staveley
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Aestheticized Violence and the ‘Amorous Catastrophe’
By Holly Elford Author Biography: Holly Elford is a final year English Literature student at the University of Edinburgh. Her interests...
Holly Elford
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Burdens of Imperialism in ‘The White Man’s Burden’, An Outpost of Progress, and A Passage to India
By Armaan Verma Author Biography: Armaan is a fourth-year student of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is interested...
Armaan Verma
Oct 2, 20231 min read
The relationship between personal and cultural-historical memory in life-writing
By Chloe Jane Mansola Author Biography: Chloe Jane Mansola was born and grew up in Greece. She just finished her fourth year of English...
Chloe Jane Mansola
Oct 2, 20231 min read
“Haunt me, then!”: Haunting as Symbolic Survival in the Gothic Literary Consciousness
By Olivia Whitelaw Author Biography: Olivia Whitelaw is a recent graduate of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her...
Olivia Whitelaw
Oct 2, 20232 min read
How do Madame Bovary, Notes from the Underground, and Middlemarch explore the nature of freedom?
By Lucie-Ly Mey Author Biography: Lucie-Ly Mey is a third-year Celtic and English literature student at the University of Edinburgh, also...
Lucie-Ly Mey
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Englishmen in the Contact Zone: A Close Reading of Gulliver’s Travels and The Rover
By August Enger Author Biography: August Enger is an undergraduate student of English Literature and History at the University of...
August Enger
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Degeneration and the Disease Motif in Woolf’s Pearls and Swine and London’s Good-by, Jack
By Armaan Verma Author Biography: Armaan Verna is a fourth-year student of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is...
Armaan Verma
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Chaos and Consensus in Victorian Comic Literature
Read the full article here: In this essay I will be discussing the statement that ‘the dominant movement in Victorian Comedy is from...
Chloe Jane Mansola
Sep 4, 20222 min read
Exploring the City through Kōbō Abe’s The Ruined Map and Yutaka Takanashi’s Toshi-e
Read the full article here: In this essay I will discuss how the city is explored in Kōbō Abe’s novel, The Ruined Map (1967) (hereafter...
Eleonora Soteriou
Sep 4, 20221 min read
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