Kingsolver’s Big Ideas
You may know Barbara Kingsolver for her epic novel The Poisonwood Bible, about missionaries in the Congo, Congo independence and […]
Read more →Literature Studies
Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: drama
A Peek into Pepys
While the famous diaries of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) give us intriguing insight into the world of 17th century London, they […]
Read more →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 →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 →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 →Kureishi’s New Year
It’s the end of the year with the new one just around the corner. We may face that with different […]
Read more →Introduction to Allegory
Here’s a poem by William Blake, from his Songs of Experience: The Sick Rose O Rose thou art sick. The […]
Read more →The Fascination of Shakespeare
There are few living Shakespearean scholars with the reputation of Stanley Wells. For nearly two decades he was Professor of […]
Read more →Thirty Years of Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt, the American novelist, has been featured quite heavily over the last few days, as it is 30 years […]
Read more →Free Speech, Banned Books
Free speech is a central tenet of democracies; everyone must be able to express their opinions, disagree and debate, even […]
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