Tag: The Secret History

• The Dark Academia Read of the 2020s is R.F. Kuang’s Babel

  Dark academia is a popular genre among young readers, and it has made a resurgence over the last decade or so. Babel, R.F. Kuang’s powerhouse of a novel published in 2022, is the dark academia book of the 2020s, sitting next to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and M.L Rio’s If We Were Villains of…

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  October 25, 2024

  dark academia, Historical Fiction

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• The Secret History – the Origins of Dark Academia

  The Secret History by Donna Tartt is an international bestseller, a critically acclaimed chonk of a book, and the basis of Dark Academia as we know it today. It was about time that I read it, but I think you’ll be surprised at what I have to say about it. First published in 1992, the…

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  February 8, 2024

  Classic Fiction, dark academia

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