A Tradition of “Great Literature” from Female British Writers Great Britain has maintained its reputation as a literary continent for the past few centuries. Shakespeare, Donne, Dickens and the Brontës are but some ...

In The Bellwether Revivals, Oscar Lowe is an odd man out at Cambridge. Though he reads widely in literature and philosophy, he grew up working class on an estate, didn’t go to university, and now works at Cedarwood nursing home...

The Holocaust is a tricky subject for any novelist, weighted as it is with sorrow, guilt, and a desperate desire not to cause offence. It seems impossible to even recount documentary evidence of Nazi practices and concentration...

For those of us whose university days are in the past, for whom books are now non-obligatory, what is the point of reading? Is it now just an escapist leisure activity, or should it be a tool for continuing one’s learning? So: ...

Classic vs. Modern Dystopia While dystopia is not a new concept, prevalent as it is in science fiction literature during the post-nuclear era, many young adult authors are taking hold of the genre, making it lighter and using i...

You will have noticed by now that we Bookkaholics are devoted – nay, addicted – to books. And, to me, there’s not much that’s better than a book list. What I especially love is seeing the connections between books, following tr...

 The new short shortest stories began with Hemingway. Indeed, one might even go so far as to classify the evolution of the short story in terms of pre-Hemingway and post-Hemingway. Unsurprisingly, Hemingway is also responsible ...