Books to buy in the first few months of 2019
A quick guide to the highly anticipated books coming out in 2019
Sequels and Spinoffs: serving commercial or creative interests?
What are the impacts of adding to a fictional universe?
‘A bit of Bah Humbug’: Christmas in Great Expectations
Dickens is the perfect post-Christmas antidote to anyone exhausted by the festive season
Beyond Juvenal: “who will guard the guardians?”
One line in Juvenal’s Satire VI finds itself reincarnated in countless modern pop culture references.
The Bookshelf: Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Villette’
In the first of our blog series on your favourite books and poems, Jenny Scoones finds the passionate love and faith in Bronte’s later, lesser-known novel to rival the author's more canonical works
Milkman by Anna Burns: a pertinent portrait of life during the...
An exploration of Anna Burns' The Milkman and its chilling relationship to the violence of the Troubles.
Armitage’s Gawain: translating in wylde wayeȝ
"Translation is not without flaws – it cannot help but alter authorial voice, although the degree to which this takes place is certainly not consistent."
Autumn by Ali Smith: a seasonal portrait of post-Brexit Britain
The first book in Smith's ongoing quartet reminds us that sympathy is possible in our polarised times
Strange creatures: monstrosity in Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’
The world of literature is abundant with monsters: physical monsters, psychological monsters, benevolent monsters, evil monsters. However, there is hardly a monster as puzzling...