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The Power of Tarot in 'Arcana Academy' by Elise Kova

The Bruised Heart of the Bookish: On Disappointment, Slumps, and the Strange Psychology of Reading

Let the Girl Want: On Sex, Sexism and Sexuality in Dark Academia (part one)

Northanger Abbey and the Teenage Fever Dream

The Language(s) of Dark Academia

Legacy and Ruin: When Utopia Burns (Blood Over Bright Heaven)

The Bacchanal Went Fine, Actually

Vampires in Dark Academia: the ideal love interest?

Roasted by One-Star Reviews: Our Favourite Dark Academia Reads Get Dragged

Dark Academia 2025: New books, same spiral

The Professor Will See You Now

If It's Not Oxbridge, We Don't Want It

So You Want to Write Dark Academia? Start Here, My Tragic Darling

Femgore and female rage: A Q&A with Heather Darwent

The Goodreads challenge and the cult of completion

A Re-Introduction to Dark Academia in 2025

Wake up, it's time for (Summer) School

A Mid-Year Reading Wrap-Up: lofty goals, some five star reads, and a few disappointments

Announcement | Season 11 Titles and the Curriculum: Supplemental Studies

In Conversation with Kat Dunn, author of 'Hungerstone'

Archetypal Characters in Dark Academia

When predatory men (slash vampires) are disguised as love interests in 'The Coven'

The Dark Academia Soundtrack

'Vita Nostra' and Transformation Through Knowledge

The limits of self-awareness: on revisiting Lee Fiora from 'Prep' in middle age

The dreamlike state and Dark Academia in 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'

Shadowed Summers: The Dark Academia Summer House as Escape and Interlude

The blood of desire: vampirism and female sexuality in 'Hungerstone' by Kat Dunn

Colonialism and Dark Academia

'An Academy for Liars' and the dark allure of elite insitutions in fiction

Exploring the Publishing Industry from a Reader's Perspective

Make Me a Villain: The treatment of successful women in 'Darkly' by Marisha Pessl

2025 Dark Academia releases to add to your TBRs

Announcement | Season 10 Titles and the Curriculum: Spring Term