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 […]
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Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: literature
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. […]
Read more →Atwood’s Latest is True to Form
There is always interest when Margaret Atwood publishes, and has been since she launched The Edible Woman in 1969, an […]
Read more →Censorship or Sensitivity?
‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.’ It’s a childhood rhyme which children were […]
Read more →Struggling to Hold a Pen
Two British Asian writers have been in the news lately, both for unfortunate reasons. The first, of course, is Salman […]
Read more →Language as Weapon and Healing
I wrote over three years ago about how language is used politically and while the issue never goes away, it […]
Read more →Katherine Mansfield Centenary
It is a century since the death of Katherine Mansfield. Timed to accord with that centenary, a new biography has […]
Read more →Sea Fever
As the year draws to its close, the last word of 2022 will be given over to Harry, who writes […]
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