Category: Literature

My Big Mouth: Queer up the media

This feature can also be found at the South West Londoner, here. A thought experiment for you: Think of three pieces of media (books, film, games, whatever) that meet the following criteria: The main character is straight.  The piece is not of …

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Author in Profile: Jasper Fforde

You can find this feature at The Yorker, here. With a lot of Science Fiction and Fantasy works, there’s a heavy emphasis on world-building in lieu of character development. Call it an artefact of Tolkien’s impact on the genres, but in many …

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Have You Read… Norwegian Wood

University is difficult. Not just the academics, but the social side more than anything else. We are forced to sink-or-swim in a setting where we initially know no one, and rarely have old friendship groups to rely on. And yet at the …

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Have You Read: Idoru

When it comes to fiction, I far prefer the worlds of Sci-Fi to High Fantasy. While both genres could be argued to share many traits; swords, sorcery, and god forbid ”elves” do very little for me. To me, science is the real …

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