A Lack of Joined-Up Thinking about the Arts
A Level results are due tomorrow. After these past two crazy years of education, I hope all students get the […]
Read more →Literature Studies
Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: language
Future Context and Books, Books, Books
If you are reading this, you are probably studying English A Level – congratulations! It’s one of the most interesting, […]
Read more →Translation
The topic of translated literature was touched on a few weeks ago, with the recommendation of Patrick Süskind’s Perfume. There […]
Read more →Rosen, James and Google
Who doesn’t love Michael Rosen? For most people, it’s chocolate cake: But Michael Rosen also has a long history of […]
Read more →The Past and Future of Writing
Welcome to the new academic year, alive, kicking and reading. As you will so often be told, it’s really important […]
Read more →A Range of Recommendations
It’s time for some more reading suggestions and in this post I’m going to cheat by borrowing a whole set […]
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 →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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