Review: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Jane Rance reviews the prequel to the The Hunger Games trilogy while considering the connections and differences between them.

Literary ‘kung fu pandas’: the Chinese wuxia genre and why Westerners don’t know it (Part I)

In Part I of this article, Audrey Wong introduces the genre of Chinese wuxia novels and their sociocultural importance, and begins to explore the reasons behind their lack of traction in the Western world.

Autumn alchemy: the perfect book and tea pairings

Winnie the Pooh: beneath the Hundred Acre Wood.

Campus lives: books about university students for university students

‘Otherwise, you live’: what Louise Glück tells us about death

The perfect books for this autumn

Romeo and Juliet – is it really a love story?

Far from nursery rhymes: William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’

‘Living in squares, loving in triangles’: the literary legacy of the Bloomsbury Group