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Free Speech, Banned Books

22 April 2022
drama, literature, politics, prose

Free speech is a central tenet of democracies; everyone must be able to express their opinions, disagree and debate, even […]

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Ukrainian Fiction and Non-Fiction

8 April 2022
literature, politics

Apart from an allusion in Arthur’s post in March, we haven’t mentioned Ukraine. I was driving through a small Welsh […]

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Russian History and Russian Literature

11 March 2022
literature, politics, prose

This week, student Arthur links contemporary  events with a Russian novel first published in 1967. As the last few weeks […]

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Angry Young Men at the Kitchen Sink

4 February 2022
drama, politics, prose

This week, I was struck by this article in The Guardian, about the humble beginnings of a literary publisher. Back […]

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Politics and Corruption

19 November 2021
politics, prose

English politics has had a couple of interesting weeks after the government tried to get one of its MPs off […]

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A Noble Writer for the Nobel Prize

8 October 2021
literary prizes, politics, prose

You may have heard that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is […]

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A Lack of Joined-Up Thinking about the Arts

9 August 2021
language, politics

A Level results are due tomorrow. After these past two crazy years of education, I hope all students get the […]

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A New Light On Mamet’s Oleanna

24 July 2021
drama, politics

Often when we are discussing literary texts, we explore different critical responses to them and we also consider the context […]

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What’s the Point of Poetry?

30 April 2021
poetry, politics

It certainly isn’t written to be studied by A Level students, but A Level students accept they have to study […]

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Black History Month

9 October 2020
poetry, politics, prose, television

Today’s post marks Black History Month. First, a short lecture introducing the first post-colonial novel, by Chinua Achebe, which opened […]

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