If you ever want to feel good about the world, go to The Guardian and search for their cartoons section. From Edith Pritchett’s Venn diagrams to some quite hilarious political drawings, it is a good time. My favourite cartoonist is Tom Gauld. He created one that now sits on my computer’s home screen. It features […]
For a prize that has been awarded for fewer than thirty years, the Women’s Prize for Fiction has no shortage of history or controversy. The idea for the award first came about in 1992, following the release of the 1991 Booker Prize shortlist. Although 60% of published books at the time were by women, none […]
In November 2022, beloved Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered a BBC Reith Lecture on “Freedom of Speech”. As an Edinburgh English Lit student, I found it a refreshing, enlightening, and inspiring speech that can have value for usall. Adichie’s premise is that public discourse is currently suffering from “social censure”. In her words, “we […]