Book Features

Down and Out in Paris and London is more than just a novel. It’s an analysis of poverty so profound and real that…

Around this time last year, I was writing a Christmas list and looking for something a bit more imaginative to put…

The fields of art history and physics don’t often brush shoulders. Students of these subjects at uni only ever see…

Maya Angelou: legendary feminist author, poet and spokeswoman against racism. Beyoncé Knowles-Carter: the most…

Stephen King once famously noted ‘Write with The doors closed’. This got me thinking about The Doors themselves;…

Since her first major dramatic success (Colder Than Here, which premiered at the Soho Court Theatre in 2005), Laura…

“The contents of this book defy description”, writes the play’s editor, Bernard Miles. Spike Milligan and John…

Great Britain is known for its complex class system, convoluted social etiquette and confounding variance of accent…

Being a teenager can be stressful, emotional, and so so wonderful. As a girl with only seven months left before I’m…

J.B. Priestley’s anti-Capitalist masterpiece: An Inspector Calls. It is the most popular dramatic text currently…

Valentine's Day is all about love. But when love is so complex, so intense, so soul-encompassing, how are mere…

Literature is amazing. You know what else is amazing? Pure, unapologetic feminism. The desire for equality…

"Light of my life, fire of my loins": the first words of both Nabokov’s masterful novel Lolita and the hook of Lana…

When applying to universities, I swayed away from studying English Literature. It wasn’t that I didn’t think the…

In my reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, set in New York in 1922, I was struck by a metaphor that…