Books

A quick guide to the highly anticipated books coming out in 2019

What are the impacts of adding to a fictional universe?

Dickens is the perfect post-Christmas antidote to anyone exhausted by the festive season

One line in Juvenal’s Satire VI finds itself reincarnated in countless modern pop culture references.

In the first of our blog series on your favourite books and poems, Jenny Scoones finds the passionate love and faith in Bronte’s later, lesser-known novel to rival the author's more canonical works

An exploration of Anna Burns' The Milkman and its chilling relationship to the violence of the Troubles.

Should lyrics be given the same respect as poetry?

"Translation is not without flaws – it cannot help but alter authorial voice, although the degree to which this takes place is certainly not consistent."

The first book in Smith's ongoing quartet reminds us that sympathy is possible in our polarised times

The world of literature is abundant with monsters: physical monsters, psychological monsters, benevolent monsters, evil monsters. However, there is hardly a monster as puzzling...