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 ...

Here, 27 of the best dark academia books to read now: Meg Wolitzer wrote her first novel, Sleepwalking, when she was still an ...

The “dark academic” is smart but sullen, effortlessly cool but largely withdrawn, with rings under their eyes (spending all night in dimly lit libraries) and bruised legs (getting up to no good in ...

Gothic architecture. Candlelit study sessions. Finding a body belonging to one of the student body. This is dark academia, the high school experience that we all secretly wish we had. While not all of ...

The main characters are humanities professors. Sorry, Baby’s Agnes (Eva Victor) is a young, creative writing professor at a ...

Almost 30 years ago, Donna Tartt’s debut novel, The Secret History, was published and a new sub-genre of literature was born: dark academia. In recent years, dark academia has expanded past the pages ...