Editors: Max Smolarski and Ciara Teefey   A town, famous for its star-studded cultural lineage in literature for names like Virginia Woolf, Patrick Hamilton, Horace Smith and Rudyard Kipling, did not foresee the aftermath the growing and aging population will have on community reading spaces. A protest outside of Rottingdean Library. Credit: Y. Sorochynskyi Since February, a proposal made by the Brighton and Hove City Council to close down Hollingbury, Westdene, and Rottingde

I Who Have Never Known Men is a 1995 dystopian novel by Jacqueline Harpman, in which the young female narrator has no recollection of the world that decays above her. From the novel's outset, the reader is immediately immersed in the setting of an underground cage containing thirty-nine imprisoned women. Each woman holds varying knowledge of the world above and has no idea how they got there.