A Blinkered Approach to Arts and Education
As has been reported widely in the UK, the government has vowed to crack down on what it sees as […]
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Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: literature
Updating the Royal Society of Literature
The Royal Society of Literature has always seen as a rather grand institution, which is not really surprising. ‘Royal Society’ […]
Read more →Ensuring Women’s Voice Are Heard
A couple of weeks ago, Barbara Kingsolver was being celebrated for being the first person to win the Women’s Prize […]
Read more →Mourning and Celebration
The Death of Cormac McCarthy The literary world has been shaken by the death of American novelist Cormac McCarthy, whose […]
Read more →A Literary Grouse-Beater?
It has to be said that we do not often feature grouse-beaters on royal estates on these pages. We’ve not […]
Read more →Puzzling Paradoxes
Paradox : a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true; a self-contradictory […]
Read more →The Flip Side of Censorship
We have been concerned with matters of free speech and censorship a number of times over the last year or […]
Read more →Who Are They? Granta’s List
I bet you have heard of Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro. How about Iain Banks, Ben Okri, Kamila […]
Read more →Discovering Percival Everett
It is always good to discover a writer that you haven’t come across before. The winners of the Windham-Campbell Prizes […]
Read more →Zelda Fitzgerald and Overlooked Women
It’s probable that most readers will have heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author and chronicler of the Jazz Age. […]
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