Alice Munro, Master of the Short Story
This blog was never meant to be a fortnightly obituary, but important writers keep shuffling off this mortal coil. This […]
Read more →Literature Studies
Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Auster Farewell; Rushdie Survival
A giant of American letters, although arguably more popular in Europe, has died. Paul Auster made his mark with his […]
Read more →Snails in the Handbag
Andrew Scott’s performance as Ripley in the new Netflix series based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel has been making a lot […]
Read more →What Price Culture?
It’s happening again, of course. The latest dying-fish twitch of the UK government is to resume its attack on arts […]
Read more →The Resilience of Buchi Emecheta
Sometimes writers have their moment in the sun, and then attention slips elsewhere and they become neglected. One such writer […]
Read more →Lonely Londoners has a Woman Problem
A dramatisation of Sam Selvon’s novel The Lonely Londoners has opened, to warm reviews, at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre. As […]
Read more →Thomas Hardy and Women
Ever since studying Tess of the d’Urbervilles at A Level, I’ve always been a bit of a fan of Thomas […]
Read more →The Ethics of Performance
An actor’s job is to pretend to be someone else. An audience applauds them for effacing themselves in order to […]
Read more →Streams of Consciousness
I have been re-reading Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway recently, enjoying the subtle but lively way in which the stream of […]
Read more →Words and their Meanings
This week the revered Oxford English Dictionary has revealed the latest words to be added to its lists, all of […]
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