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
Category: literature
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 →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 →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 →Benjamin Zephaniah
It was saddening to hear of Benjamin Zephaniah’s untimely death last week. A dyslexic Rastafarian with limited formal education and […]
Read more →Kae Tempest and the Guts to Love
Kae Tempest’s Brand New Ancients, which takes ordinary people and sees their lives in the light of the ancient Greek […]
Read more →Delving into Dickens
The thing is with Dickens is that most of his books are very big. The other things is that most […]
Read more →Warning: Contains Trigger Warnings
Sensitivities about topics, events and language in texts have created controversies for as long as texts have been published. Books […]
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 […]
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