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In The Zone of Interest, Martin Amis represents our familiar world from a radically unfamiliar angle.
Encouraging men to take the risk of expressing tender feelings for others is part of relying on love as a tool of anti-racist and decolonial education.
Miss Americana has been discussed in English literature classes for some years now – sometimes alongside Shakespeare.
In Byatt’s fiction, northern locations become emblems of the climate crisis and of how human actions have detrimental effects on the whole planet.
Bernice Rubens won the 1970 Booker prize for her novel, The Elected Member, and is the only Welsh person to have ever won the prize.
From a longlist of 12, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2023 Booker prize.
These five works of Welsh gothic literature will not only help you explore Wales through the macabre but are likely to give you a good scare too.
In George Eliot’s masterpiece of 19th century realism, characters are confronted with the limits of their individual capacities and visions.
Martin Amis’s writing style was instantly recognisable: caustic and savagely funny with a sense of pathos. His death at 73 marks the end of an era.
There is an interesting new story emerging about the lengths of speeches in early modern plays. In the space of five years there was a dramatic shift in style – and it wasn’t just Shakespeare.
In Thomas Hardy’s novel The Woodlanders, the trees sing. Hardy’s exploration of the relationship between humans and trees resonates in an epoch of environmental catastrophe.
These new witches are rarely comparable to traditional dirty hags. The new witch is often beautiful, at once dark, gothic, ethereal and wild.
He is most famous for The Woman in White, but with their intriguing female characters and investigation of social issues, it’s time to delve into Wilkie Collins’ other novels.
Ian McEwan has forged his own genre – crisply realist surfaces mixed with sudden excursions into the darkest corridors of the mind. In Lessons, the central character reveals a writerly consciousness.
A fictional portrayal of Lucrezia de’ Medici imagines the inner life of a tragic historical figure, but effaces the true complexity of her situation.
Examining the data from prize-winning Booker novels over the last 20 years yields some interesting results.
Evelyn Waugh’s outrageous third novel was controversial, but not for the reasons you might expect.
A hip-hop artist and scholar says that while rap stresses the oral tradition, the music is also rife with references to a rich range of literature that spans the globe.
Julian Barnes’ Elizabeth Finch is an unrequited love story and a philosophical novel that asks how we understand ourselves and others.
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Lecturer in English Literature, University of Oxford
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Professor of Contemporary Literature, University of Reading
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Senior Lecturer (English and Drama), Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of English and National Teaching Fellow, Birmingham City University
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Senior Lecturer in Fantasy and Children's Literature, Co-Director, Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor in English Literature, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Lecturer of English Literature, Lancaster University
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Professor of Creative Writing, University of Hull
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Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University
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Lecturer of English, University of Liverpool
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