Many literary greats have been religious outsiders, and reading them we can relate to our times. This is particularly the case with Dryden.
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Jonathan Coe is under-read and underrated – in the UK. In France, his stinging social attacks on Britain are far more popular.
The release of the long list has opened the gates to the annual torrents of literary hobnobbing.
Fifty Shades of Grey and fan fic like it has reached the Ivy League.
Carroll’s pivotal children’s classic offers a timeless mystery for generations to come.
Almost immediately after the battle, Waterloo became a tourist destination for contemplative souls.
The Refugee Tales is a modern reconstruction of Chaucer’s classic pilgrimage – this time, telling the largely unspoken realities of immigration detention.
Books have active political lives. They inspire social movements and bind people together. Books can stand as short-hand symbols for larger galaxies of ideas.
Obsessing about the bard’s dashing good looks won’t help us understand his works.
The PEN literary gala has been overshadowed by controversy.
The Victorian author has a lot more to offer than you might think. Find out where to get started.
Centuries before the internet, Shakespeare became a global phenomenon.
Terry Pratchett and Jorge Luis Borges may have been the prophets of the future library.
Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, was an ardent defender of children’s literature, believing the works of Beatrix Potter to be equal to “the greatest English prose writers that have…
The Shakespeare First Folio (1623), the first collected edition of his plays and the sole source for half of them (including Macbeth, Antony & Cleopatra, All’s Well, As You Like It, and The Tempest…
Reading for pleasure as a child has been powerfully linked in research to the development of vocabulary and maths skills up to the age of 16. But does reading still have a part to play in the breadth of…
For the second year running, the Edinburgh International Book Festival returns with Stripped 2014; a strand dedicated exclusively to comics and graphic novels. It has even commissioned its own graphic…
Somewhere, in the depths of your memory, you can probably still recall a quote or two from Shakespeare. Everybody in the UK studies the Bard at school – whether they go on to love him or hate him. As leading…
The gorgeous, ethereal photographic portrait shot of Virginia Woolf taken in 1902 by George Beresford has become the iconic image of her, ubiquitous on mugs, mouse-mats and tea-towels. This image certainly…
According to Jacques Derrida, “nothing can be invented on the subject of Joyce”. Speaking in 1984, he had in mind the sheer comprehensive power of Joyce’s writing: from the capacity of Ulysses to draw…
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