Written by Kenneth Grahame as a story for his young son, The Wind in the Willows has also been read as a social satire and a gay allegory.
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Hemingway’s response to death and disease was very different from the parody that circulated earlier this year.
The archive of David Cornwell’s work at the Bodleian Library in Oxford also reveals the depth of his collaboration with his wife Jane.
Rereading Harry Potter during the COVID-19 pandemic means finding new ways of identifying with the characters, especially in the seventh book, where Harry finds himself struggling with isolation.
Homer and Aeschylus turned to the divine to write their happy endings. But no gods are conspiring above the US, ready to swoop down and save humankind from itself.
Miles Franklin’s masterpiece features an untamed, unapologetic heroine, positing a choice between career and love rather than women ‘having it all’.
Penny dreadfuls told real stories of murder and mayhem to 19th-century audiences seeking escape from city life. True crime podcasts have a lot in common with them.
Just because two events last a month does not mean they both last the same amount of time.
The story of child poverty in 1980s Glasgow speaks to current concerns across the UK.
From ghosts and meddling staff to interesting decorating choices, the houses in these books make for great reading.
Literature funding has been cut brutally in recent years and writers’ incomes are disastrously low. Yet books shape our national identity, forming an often invisible bedrock for the wider economy.
Nigeria’s poet and playwright, John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo, died on October 13 aged 86
A tale of vampirism would have been shocking to readers at the time if was published, not because of its monsters, but its politics.
During the second world war, people found solace in the formulaic narratives of historical romances and during the pandemic they could once again provide readers comfort.
A new Netflix adaptation of Rebecca stars Lily James and Armie Hammer. The novel on which it is based, first published in 1938, explores domestic entrapment.
Wild coastlines, rich folklore and a sense that it’s a place unto itself, at once England and not, has made Cornwall the ideal setting for Gothic tales.
In Oscar Wilde’s novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray,’ a painted portrait of the protagonist becomes ugly and twisted with age, much like Trump is represented as reflecting all of America’s evils.
A new book contains much wisdom on the question of ageing and the search for meaning.
You might think he’s the hero of his own story but the murder happy Hamlet is really an unconscionable brute.
Be they ghosts or her mind playing tricks? The uncertainty is the draw of the 1898 classic The Turn of the Screw.
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