When lockdown was announced in March, students left their classrooms, not knowing when they would come back. While many have now returned to school, the future of formal education remains unknown. Out ...

Young people are endlessly fascinated with the brooding, romantically intellectual fashion enshrined in films like Harry Potter and Brideshead Revisited—even as their own prospects for higher ...

At a moment in time when students weren’t able to go to school, offices were closed and many of us stuck to our sweatpants and leggings, one particular internet subculture started developing into a ...

The “dark academic” is smart but sullen, effortlessly cool but largely withdrawn, with rings under their eyes (spending all night in dimly lit libraries) and bruised legs (getting up to no good in ...

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Dark academia is an aesthetic that's become popular on styling and social media sites. Some also use it to describe a collected tone, archetypes, and some specific storytelling aspects in anime. Dark ...

As we enter full autumn and All Hallows’ Eve, the moment is right for dark academia. Some notes for the uninitiated: Dark academia is a subculture devoted to spaces like stony Oxford libraries, long, ...

The genre — characterized by Gothic intrigue and a liberal arts aesthetic — grew out of Donna Tartt’s cult favorite campus novel, “The Secret History.” Here’s where to start. By Jenny Hamilton Jenny ...