Explore how psychogeography - urban landscapes shaping narrative - guides modern British authors in transforming cities into literary mirrors of psyche.
With its new winner, the Booker Prize champions plot over prose. Is this a needed revival of narrative or a loss for experimental fiction?
By Sara Noah There is a memorial plaque in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, mounted on a wall near the gates of George Heriot’s School. It honours…
By Tessa Nolan In September 1858, a 13-part essay series began appearing in the pages of the New York Atlas, a Sunday broadsheet. It ran…
By Sara Noah In October 2023, a group of fifteen people gathered on a Zoom call, took a collective breath, and read the final page…
By Tessa Nolan There is a prejudice so embedded in Western culture that most people never think to question it: the assumption that the ability…
The Elly Conway Deception: What the Argylle Pseudonym Reveals About Publishing and Celebrity Culture
By Sara Bright When The Telegraph unmasked the real authors behind the pseudonym Elly Conway on 2 February 2024, it detonated a publishing premise. The…
By Sara Bright In the summer of 1834, a steamship carried two of France’s most celebrated writers from Paris to Venice. Alfred de Musset, the…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic Pelted with herring, lampooned by editors, and ignored by Queen Victoria herself, William McGonagall became the worst…
By Sara Bright In July 2018, author Michelle Harrison discovered her own books on a piracy website called OceanOfPDF.com and did something that would reshape…