Contributor
Hector Hallett
Founder and editor-in-chief of The Astyanax, which he started in 2026 to give emerging writers in the humanities a serious place to publish. He reads English at the University of York, where his interests are Modernism and its classical inheritance.
University of York
Published in The Astyanax
From the archive · Literature · Essay
Conformity and Rebellion: Joyce and Bennett on Education and IdentityHow A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and The History Boys stage the conflict between institutional authority and the self.
6 September 2026
From the archive · Literature · Essay
The Illusion of Choice: A Reading of Larkin’s ‘Dockery and Son’On time, habit, and the futility of the paths not taken.
6 September 2026
From the archive · Classics · Poetry
Ios, GreeceA Homeric style poem on the theme 'Riddle' for the Oxford Tower Poetry Competition 2026.
28 August 2026
From the archive · Literature · Essay
The Creature as Eve: Liminality in Shelley’s Frankensteinand the Fragmented Self in Early Modernist Thought
12 June 2026
From the archive · Literature · Essay
Paris France, Gertrude SteinTo Be Fashionable and To Be Logical
12 June 2026