Behind George Orwell
George Orwell is well known, primarily for two novels which have enjoyed remarkable success. Many youngsters have enjoyed the animal […]
Read more →Literature Studies
Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: politics
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 […]
Read more →Art as Political Response
Last time I was querying context, and ended by commenting that it can be interesting to see how writers respond […]
Read more →For the Love of Libraries
Next door to my primary school was a library. By the time I was about 10, I visited that hushed […]
Read more →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 →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 →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 →Free Speech, Banned Books
Free speech is a central tenet of democracies; everyone must be able to express their opinions, disagree and debate, even […]
Read more →Ukrainian Fiction and Non-Fiction
Apart from an allusion in Arthur’s post in March, we haven’t mentioned Ukraine. I was driving through a small Welsh […]
Read more →Russian History and Russian Literature
This week, student Arthur links contemporary events with a Russian novel first published in 1967. As the last few weeks […]
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