Sri Lankan Fact and Fiction
The Booker Prize winner was announced this week – we looked at the shortlist a little while ago. Slightly disappointingly, […]
Read more →Literature Studies
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Literature and Society
I’ve been reading some of Chinua Achebe’s essays recently and two are particularly pertinent today, despite one being first published […]
Read more →Thirty Years of Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt, the American novelist, has been featured quite heavily over the last few days, as it is 30 years […]
Read more →New Fiction and Literature on Social Media
Ian McEwan, once the bête noir of English fiction with dark novels of sadism and sex, has become a prolific […]
Read more →Another Attack on Free Speech
Here we are again. I wrote about free speech back in April, but of course had no idea how this […]
Read more →Young People’s Writing Recognised
It’s Booker season again, as the long list for this year’s prize has just been announced. It is an international […]
Read more →Sittenfeld’s US Politics and Life
This week, we return to Harry, who is becoming a regular columnist. This time he invites us to consider US […]
Read more →Writing and Division
Let’s start this week by writing about writing. When a writer as renowned as Michael Morpurgo says that being able […]
Read more →Joyce and Bloomsday
We are a little bit late, but perhaps some of you noticed that 16 June was Bloomsday. Those who didn’t […]
Read more →Shape-Shifting Bruce Chatwin
‘On 1 February 1984, an Englishman with a rucksack and walking-boots strides into a bungalow in the Irene district of […]
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