Poem of the week: Down by the Salley Gardens by WB Yeats
Play me the musical version of ‘Down by the Salley Gardens’ and you are guaranteed to see me in tears within seconds. I fell in love with the words of…
Poem of the Week: ‘They Eat Out’ by Margaret Atwood
Like many, I was first introduced to Margaret Atwood’s remarkable way with words via her prolific and groundbreaking novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, adapted as an acclaimed television series in 2017.…
Springtime reads for all your procrastination needs
Revision season is upon us, and now more than ever is the time to pick up a good book and forget the impending doom of our final exams. Despite the…
Lent 2019: a time to give up bad habits and adopt good ones
With Shrove Tuesday (pancake day) having just passed, the time to start thinking about Lent is here. Originally a Christian tradition, Lent has long been associated with fasting. In recent…
Students should engage with the upcoming elections
To many students, the Edinburgh University Students’ Association elections are nothing to write home about. Each year, a handful of members of the student body go head-to-head for the chance…
On celebrity feminism
Type in the word feminist on Google and a whole host of celebrities appear, from Lily Cole to Shailene Woodley and even Benedict Cumberbatch. These days, the two words feminist…
Introducing: Zadie Smith
The author of prodigious works such as White Teeth and On Beauty, Zadie Smith is a big name in contemporary fiction. Smith’s novels deal with issues of race, identity and…
Pumpkin-spiced reads for all your autumnal needs
As Halloween has been and gone and Edinburgh rapidly gets chillier by the day, it’s hard to ignore the rat-tat-tat of winter at the door. To celebrate the final month…