The Secret History fits into a long tradition of novels set on university campuses – including Petrou's latest, Stargazer, about two friends at a remote Canadian university in the 90s, which she ...

It's often forgotten that the literature which inspired this aesthetic – The Secret History, M.L. Rio’s If We Were Villains and A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara – creates idealised but ...

For The Secret History to work, you have to buy into the glamour of the classics majors, at least a little bit. And as ridiculous and pretentious a crew as they are, I absolutely do, every time.

“The Secret History” is so self-aware that its self-awareness actually loops back around to become self-ignorance. I have, for the past six months, opened the book periodically and read 20 or so pages ...

Overview of The Secret History. The Secret History was written in 1992 but became especially popular in the last several years. It's a defining novel, too, in the subcategory of dark academia.