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Robert McCrum on D.H. Lawrence
I am a child of the late 1950s and 60s, raised on D.H. Lawrence (and some other books, too). As young teenagers in the summer of Love, we found our perception...
Robert McCrum on D.H. Lawrence
I am a child of the late 1950s and 60s, raised on D.H. Lawrence (and some other books, too). As young teenagers in the summer of Love, we found our perception...
I Can Connect Nothing With Nothing: How The Was...
By Elsie Hayward Student Writer T.S Eliot’s modernist masterpiece The Wasteland was written in the aftermath of a devastating world war. The very fabric of it seems traumatised, being...
I Can Connect Nothing With Nothing: How The Was...
By Elsie Hayward Student Writer T.S Eliot’s modernist masterpiece The Wasteland was written in the aftermath of a devastating world war. The very fabric of it seems traumatised, being...
The Case for George Orwell
Barely a week goes by these days without some pundit citing George Orwell, and with good reason. Among the unhappy effects of 9/11 has been the explosion of the surveillance...
The Case for George Orwell
Barely a week goes by these days without some pundit citing George Orwell, and with good reason. Among the unhappy effects of 9/11 has been the explosion of the surveillance...
Macbeth in a Nutshell
Macbeth may well be the most terrifying play in the English language, though it hasn’t always been seen that way. Traditional critics, while accepting that it is a thorough-going a study...
Macbeth in a Nutshell
Macbeth may well be the most terrifying play in the English language, though it hasn’t always been seen that way. Traditional critics, while accepting that it is a thorough-going a study...
Is The Handmaid’s Tale about Donald Trump?
From the moment it premiered on American TV earlier this year, people have been drawing a parallel between the events depicted in Hulu’s adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale and Donald...
Is The Handmaid’s Tale about Donald Trump?
From the moment it premiered on American TV earlier this year, people have been drawing a parallel between the events depicted in Hulu’s adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale and Donald...
How Gatsby Became Great
Last year marked the 90th anniversary of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby. Yet back in the 1920s, few would have expected its appeal to last so long....
How Gatsby Became Great
Last year marked the 90th anniversary of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby. Yet back in the 1920s, few would have expected its appeal to last so long....