By Sara Bright The Angry Young Men, a journalistic label applied to a group of British writers in the mid-1950s, captured a seismic shift in…
The Booker Prize longlist arrived on 28 July, thirteen books chosen from 163 submitted, and the first thing worth saying about it is that nobody…
On the morning of 29 July 1703 a bankrupt London tradesman of forty-three was locked into a wooden frame at Cornhill, beside the Royal Exchange,…
On 28 July the Booker Prize reveals its 2026 longlist, the annual Booker Dozen of twelve or thirteen novels that will dominate literary conversation until…
Virginia Woolf pioneered stream-of-consciousness writing. Discover how her fragmented, intimate style prefigured today's personal blogging culture.
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…