Beyond Brokeback – Annie Proulx
“There’s a point in your life when you quit expecting wonderful and delightful things to happen to you, and I […]
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Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: literary prizes
The Challenging Drama of Harold Pinter
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter is a remarkable play. It is staged quite frequently, and I have seen it in […]
Read more →Sarah Waters: More than Crime and Titillation
Harry Perrin wrote for us at the beginning of July this year, suggesting that there will always be an appropriate […]
Read more →New Sonnets Win Prize
‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ ‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.’ You might be familiar […]
Read more →A Noble Writer for the Nobel Prize
You may have heard that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is […]
Read more →New Fiction and Theatre
There have been intriguing reports about two recently published novels. One of them is a dark fantasy. Piranesi is the […]
Read more →Poetry’s Essential Communication
Some more poetry thoughts this week, as the Forward Foundation has announced its shortlist for the Forward Prize. On the […]
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 →Questions About Humanity: Keats and Ishiguro
Initially, there might not seem to be a great deal of common ground between the archetypal young Romantic poet, John […]
Read more →Jim Crace, Orwell and Copyright
The Christmas break is always a great opportunity to do some extended reading. Here are some of my discoveries from […]
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