‘The Yellow Wallpaper’: Why Does Confinement Look Yellow?
There is probably a reason why Oscar Wilde’s last words were: “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to
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literature
Student, Situationships, and Normal People
Sally Rooney broke all of our hearts with the ending of Normal People, be it if you watched the BBC
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Why Gabriel García Márquez’s Chronicle Of A Death Foretold Is Still A Masterpiece
When I mention the name Gabriel García Márquez in St Andrews, I either get a confused facial expression as a
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Qiu Maojin: Why This Groundbreaking Taiwanese Writer Matters
‘Shifting the Focus From Sylvia Plath’s Tragic Death to Her Brilliant Life,’ read a headline last month in The New
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Book Review: John Sellars’ Lessons In Stoicism
Stoicism is not an easy philosophy to adopt. It requires one to do away with a good deal of the
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Bookshops In The Bubble
George Orwell once wrote he no longer buys books due to the disdain he developed of dead bluebottles on the
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Weighing Up The West Through Four Books
In my last article, I lauded Thailand’s quick and effective response to the Coronavirus pandemic compared to that of the
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An (Entirely Platonic) Love Letter to Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle
It was a mild Friday in late April last year, the time when spring inches towards summer, and coursework deadlines
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Debate: Are cookery books literature?
The broad topic of this debate embodies the age-old question of what constitutes literature? As a society, why do we
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Anna Akhmatova: The tragic destiny of a Russian soul
I was walking home. The sun was out. The snow had finally melted and the grass was growing green, so
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