Are Penguin clothbound classics perpetuating a boring white canon?

With Mother’s Day nearly upon us, Audre Lorde’s essay discussing her experience of lesbian parenthood from her collection ‘Sister Outsider’ is the perfect text to reflect on non-conventional parent dynamics

The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments detail a new America: Gilead. Though rooted in fantasy, Gilead reflects the disasters of today

The UoM Feminist Collective have brought back their Lit Club, online and accessible to all. Find out what they’ve got coming up!

Bella Mackie’s debut fiction novel How to Kill Your Family is let down by its lack of subtlety and its caricatured characters

Ava Innes explores Literary Friction, a podcast perfect for those who need a break from books, but not the ideas behind them

Does Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise live up to the success of her much loved previous novel A Little Life?

In light of the release of To Paradise, we take a look at Hanya Yanagihara’s previous bestseller A Little Life to see why it is still shaking its readers to their core

Hanya Yanagihara came to Manchester, a dream come true for fans of A Little Life and To Paradise

Can content warnings ruin a book’s storyline? Hannah Wellock reviews BookTok sensation and New York Times Best Seller It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover and discusses its lack of a content warning

Whether this is your first time hearing the term asexuality or you identify as asexual, Ace by Angela Chen is essential reading

By delving into the world of Evelyn Hugo and her seven husbands, we look at whether Taylor Jenkins Reid’s book is worth the hype surrounding it on TikTok

Is Adam Kay milking the success of his bestselling memoir This is Going to Hurt?

Snapshots of the Apocalypse, the new short story collection by Katy Wimhurst, makes the perfect reading for study breaks

Jacob Folkard talks to Dr Clara Dawson on how to examine our past for a better future, and what the steps The University of Manchester have taken to decolonise the literature curriculum

Have you always wanted to read more books? Look no further, here we have a couple of tips and a book list to get you started.

Deputy books editor Ava Innes looks at the state of porn today, discussing the ideas of Amia Srinivasan in her new book ‘The Right to Sex’

If you’re feeling heartbroken this Valentine’s Day, here are the best books to read following a break-up

We chat to Joe from Village Books, the new shop selling books, magazines, and publications in the Northern Quarter

Bernadine Evaristo is announced to be the next president of the Royal Society of Literature. The Mancunion reviews her Manifesto