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Wilfred Owen: The Peter Pan of the Trenches
“What passing bells for those who die as cattle?” The poetry of those who fought in the trenches of World War One has now been a vital part of our...
Wilfred Owen: The Peter Pan of the Trenches
“What passing bells for those who die as cattle?” The poetry of those who fought in the trenches of World War One has now been a vital part of our...
Hardy’s pessimism
Can pessimistic novelists change the way they write? Thomas Hardy was one whose work seems to say "no". Shortly before starting work on The Return of the Native, Hardy wrote down...
Hardy’s pessimism
Can pessimistic novelists change the way they write? Thomas Hardy was one whose work seems to say "no". Shortly before starting work on The Return of the Native, Hardy wrote down...
Jane Austen the Game Theorist
In recent years, several studies have examined the links between literature and science, a relationship known as “consilience”. Most prominent of these is Jonah Lehrer's Proust was a Neuroscientist, which...
Jane Austen the Game Theorist
In recent years, several studies have examined the links between literature and science, a relationship known as “consilience”. Most prominent of these is Jonah Lehrer's Proust was a Neuroscientist, which...
How Paradise Lost influenced Moby Dick
In a visit to Princeton University Library, William Giraldi recently discovered Herman Melville’s copy of Paradise Lost. Checkmarks, underscores, annotations and Xs reveal something of an obsession with Milton’s greatest...
How Paradise Lost influenced Moby Dick
In a visit to Princeton University Library, William Giraldi recently discovered Herman Melville’s copy of Paradise Lost. Checkmarks, underscores, annotations and Xs reveal something of an obsession with Milton’s greatest...
The fashion essay that made Oscar Wilde famous
A well-turned epithet often blinds to the truth, and nowhere is this more the case than in the writing of Oscar Wilde. His latter-day repudiation of journalism as “the adversary...
The fashion essay that made Oscar Wilde famous
A well-turned epithet often blinds to the truth, and nowhere is this more the case than in the writing of Oscar Wilde. His latter-day repudiation of journalism as “the adversary...
Garbage in The Great Gatsby
While The Great Gatsby is rightly seen as condemning Jazz Age wastefulness, the importance of actual waste in the novel is often overlooked. One of the early titles of Scott...
Garbage in The Great Gatsby
While The Great Gatsby is rightly seen as condemning Jazz Age wastefulness, the importance of actual waste in the novel is often overlooked. One of the early titles of Scott...