Essays

I saw a TikTok-video where a boy sat on the outside of a café, reading Sylvia Plath. Or, I guess I should say “reading”, because the book were upside down. After that it seems like more and more has popped up of boys doing exactly that – reading feminist, or highly regarded, literature on the […]

Reading-culture has always been subject for the constant change that happens around us and in society. From the stone-ages where you’d have to spend hours engraving symbols and runes into stones to tell what you’d like. Throughout the 1800s, being able to read, and literacy comprehension increased, but the books were still intended for the

Like Richard, I was engulfed in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History when I first read it. It seemed great to me. Aesthetic and beautiful. Living in a giant school with dark, gothic architecture. Reading clothbound books from the library with dust on them. Wearing blazers, mary-janes and mysterious glasses. It seems awesome. Right? That is