Graphic novels have a long history and are becoming an ever-more popular way of bringing profound and complex stories to life.
- Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
The latest screen adaptation of Atwood’s celebrated 1980s novel has new relevance for women in the Trump era.
The poet’s letters to her former therapist will be published later this year. How far is this an invasion of her privacy?
Subculture is on the decline, according to many pundits. But a trip to Whitby on certain weekends would demonstrate otherwise.
Dicken’s great anti-hero has monopolised festive literature for too long. Here are the alternative takes on the season of goodwill that you have been missing.
Witches in fiction fascinate but what were they really like?
The terms of fan culture may seem baffling but once you get the hang of them you’ll see it’s not all so newfangled.
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