Illustrations by Grace McKenna In an increasingly digital world, reading a physical book is becoming somewhat old-fashioned. Kindles and other portable digital reading tools offer the ability to carry hundreds of books around without your tote bag straps snapping – a desirable prospect for avid readers like me who find themselves devouring multiple books a week. With the click of a button, you can have a new book at your fingertips – no waiting for a delivery or travelling to

Illustrations by Grace McKenna Writing a literature and theatre column, it was inevitable that I would eventually write an article where these worlds collided. In fact, it’s almost impossible to discuss one without discussing the other. Literature and theatre have been interacting and inspiring each other for hundreds of years, exchanging stories, characters, and motifs. Their entanglement stretches all the way back to the 16 th century, with perhaps the most famous playwrig

Illustrations by Grace McKenna Since last May, I’ve started keeping a reading journal. I’ve always been a keen user of book tracking apps (StoryGraph over Goodreads any day, by the way), but I didn’t use these to write reviews, rather just to track what I had read. Starting my reading journal, I vowed to write a review for every book I read from then on, and I’m pleased to report that I’ve stuck to that promise. This process has changed the way I engage with many books; it ha

Illustrations by Grace McKenna We’ve all heard the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover.” In many theoretical or philosophical situations this may be true, but what about with actual books? Nowadays, this phrase is used more in its metaphorical than literal sense, but some of its earliest recorded uses were in reference to real books. In George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860), the character Mr Tulliver says “But it seems one mustn’t judge by the outside” in relati

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The Broad's Creative Editor, Srishti Ramakrishnan, has created a list of ten pieces of literature which...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The Broad’s Creative Editor, Srishti Ramakrishnan, has assembled a winter reading list of ten essential...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The Broad’s Creative Editors, Amy Norton, Noor Kabbani, and Srishti Ramakrishnan, have put together a...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The Broad’s Creative Editor, Srishti Ramakrishnan, has put together a list of ten must-reads for this...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq From children’s fairy tales where the heroine marries the prince, to Hollywood films where the ‘guy gets...

Rating: ** I didn’t enjoy reading A Crime in the Land Of 7000 Islands, although I did get the point of it. More of a fantastical mystery...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Writing about the Covid-19 pandemic can often seem gruelling and unrewarding. There’s a general sense...