Reviewing the Last Decade
A happy new year of reading and exploration to you all. I hope Santa brought you some interesting books and […]
Read more →Literature Studies
Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Clive James RIP
A celebration in response to the death of Clive James, who had dealt with his long illness with philosophy, wisdom, […]
Read more →The Tempest
Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a very late play by Shakespeare, among those often referred to as his ‘problem’ plays; they […]
Read more →Prizes, Prizes
You may well have heard that this year’s judges of the Booker Prize broke their own rules by splitting the […]
Read more →Political Language
Language, the very words which we speak and the effects those words have are the material for our discussion every […]
Read more →William Blake
The focus in this post is a single writer, and artist, and takes us beyond literature. I’ll start with the […]
Read more →Language Changes as We Wait for Atwood
Many readers will have followed the television adaptations and developments of Margaret Atwood’s great novel The Handmaid’s Tale. If you’ve […]
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