Showing posts with label dark academia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dark academia. Show all posts

Sunday, 28 September 2025

Dark Academia, Deconstructed: beyond the aesthetic

Dark Academia Books: The Essential Reading List of Obsession, Privilege and Beauty
Tweed blazers. Ancient libraries. A murder among the privileged. Dark academia has become a cultural moodboard, spilling across TikTok, Instagram, and bookshop displays. 

It’s all candlelit study sessions, whispered debates about Greek tragedy, and the intoxicating smell of old money and old books. But what happens when we look past the velvet curtains? Is dark academia simply an aesthetic, or does it say something sharper about literature, class, and longing?

Saturday, 20 September 2025

When writers go serial: The fiction newsletter Renaissance

From Dickens to Substack – The New Age of Serial Fiction

Somewhere between a Dickens cliffhanger and a Substack subscriber list, a curious thing is happening. Fiction is going serial again.

Once the domain of Victorian magazines and pulp weeklies, serialised storytelling is seeing a new wave of popularity, only this time, it’s landing directly in readers’ inboxes. From Substack to Beehiiv, Ghost to Revue, platforms once reserved for thinkpieces and hot takes are now hosting fictional universes, unfolding one email at a time.