The Tortured Poets Department: A love letter to readers everywhere

Bella Farley examines the literary references in Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, and what makes this album so appealing to readers

‘Soul’s therapy’: the confessional poets and mental health

Jane Rance explores the lives of three American poets and how their writing encouraged open conversations about mental health.

To the Percy Jackson series: a (nuanced) love letter (Part I)

The phenomenon of #BookTok

Literary genres: Necessary or restrictive?

Dissolving the boundaries of friendship: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels

Should we be able to give books a bad review?

Hope, resistance and the value of Palestinian poetry

Blind in the mind – what it’s like to read with Aphantasia

The halo effect in Eliza Clark’s ‘Boy Parts’