Essays on Literature and Writing

What koans can teach us about great literature.

In the poem, ‘Binsey Poplars’, written in 1879, by an English Jesuit convert priest and poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ preaches a form of…

The animalistic nature of the human tends to reveal itself in different forms. Sometimes in the form of violence and madness, while other…

Fan fiction is bad. Or so they say.

As a research field, Literary Theory and Criticism, like all others, is attributed to the ancient Greek -Western- philosophers like Plato…

Representations of order, disorder and violence through addiction in Arthur Conal Doyle’s ‘The Sign of Four’.

“Shooting an Elephant” as a short story written by George Orwell is about a police officer who shoots an escaped elephants in Burma, India…

Japanese Antiquarian Bookshop District Jinbôchô

The true shape of a story

An unconventional choice that has it all.

A handbook to avoid patriarchal pitfalls in your scripts

Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook

A look into ‘Everything Stuck to Him’ by Raymond Carver

Meditations on Quarantine Reading

How to contain, capture and corral creative inspiration

From the edge of a patio where I sit across from my mother, we watch farmers from the Haute-Provence region setting up their weekly market…

Rupi Kaur recently held two writing workshops on Instagram—here’s what I wrote and learned.

My struggle with My Struggle.

On the obsessive need for rationality in art.

Happy Wednesday and welcome to your weekly update from Literally Literary. These updates are here to highlight some of the top stories and…

In a society overflowing with content and escapisms, does fiction do more harm than good?