Category: Literature

I am best friends with the bizarre. My favourite books are often the ones with a uniquely bonkers story, often complemented by an equally bonkers formatting style. I’ll be honest, I had no clue what to do for this edition’s Lit Corner, so I thought I’d make some short and sweet recommendations for some of […]

Erasing Palestine – Rebecca Ruth Gould (2023) [Non-fiction]  ‘Our silence is complicity. This complicity also silences Palestinians, keeping their experiences hidden from public view.’   Rebecca Ruth Gould’s Erasing Palestine is a well-researched exploration of free speech and the struggle for Palestinian freedom. Not only does it describe Gould’s experience in being accused of antisemitism for […]

Good and honest disability representation can be hard to come by. I often wake up in cold sweats remembering Sia’s 2021 Autistic masterpiece Music (note the sarcasm).  Misrepresentation of disabled people in media is often caused by a lack of understanding or demonisation of disability. As a disabled bibliophile, I had almost given up finding […]

Fanfiction is an integral part of any fandom, including the God fandom. For centuries, people have been writing literature and poetry inspired by their favourite book, the Bible, but do they count as fanfiction? In its simplest definition, fanfictions are stories created by fans about existing media. Typically, fanfiction authors use the same plot, lore, […]

A pigeon, a stranger, and a cockroach walk into a bar… The absurdist genre emerged post-World War II and explores the absurd aspects of life, evoked by disillusionment and existential questions. Absurdist novels often present worlds or events that lack logical explanations and involve characters who experience some form of alienation from their society and […]

Gothic fiction has been a popular literary genre since it was first conceived in Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. While Gothic fiction is varied, three main aspects characterise the genre: an environment of fear, threats of the supernatural, and intrusion of the past onto the present. Sometimes, these three combine into one […]