Tag: books

Given its intense media coverage and everything that seems to be on the line, I feel as though I have been anxiously awaiting the results of the 2026 US midterm elections for weeks, months – maybe years.

It is a worrying thought that what sits on your bookshelf today could be out of reach tomorrow. You might believe book banning to...

A beautiful book, written in a determinedly readable style, is bound to become popular, not to mention the endless power of nostalgia.

Reconnecting with reading is something many people tend to do on a summer holiday, and statistics suggest it is one of the only times...

‘When he created Earth and these lands upon it, when he divided people into believers and infidels, the crescent moon and the cross, the...

An issue that has been encountered by authors since the dawn of time, perhaps one that feels too obvious to even state, is that some readers will not enjoy their books.

The death of the male novelist, as a concept exaggerated by the dramaticisms of its name, fails to stand up under investigation.

A new secondhand bookstore opened in Oxford city centre last week. Located in the Golden Cross shopping centre, just off Cornmarket Street, the bookstore stocks hundreds of secondhand books, ranging from accessibly priced paperbacks to rare and expensive antiquarian first-editions.

The novel demonstrates how speculative fiction is a genre ultimately concerned with the relationship between the environment and the individual, between Earth and humanity.

That Sunday could arrive first-class, Wrapped in tissue and stickers with minimalist logo. Sent anonymously (from a fan?). It will be a crisp, sunblushed Sunday. The first in...

It is undeniable that LGBTQ+ representation in the media has become more positive in recent years.

The book opens with the unnamed narrator travelling to interview his academic mentor and 90-year-old intellectual superstar, Thomas, for a magazine.

I remember my tutor asking us if we thought our literature options were broad enough at the end of an Italian tutorial last term.

The Times columnist James Marriott sees the decline in reading in Britain as part of a wider trend of rising populism and the death of liberalism.