The avengers of the Odyssey
Homer’s audience delighted in violence and bloodshed. Can modern readers stomach his story?
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Sylvia Townsend Warner’s obscure forces
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes, published a century ago, is a powerful reverie on women’s interwar status
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How Wuthering Heights seduced its readers
Nothing beats the thrills and seductions of Emily Brontë’s novel
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Hunter S Thompson’s freaks have overrun America
The pioneer of gonzo chronicled his people’s wild descent – and saw what his country has now become
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Picnic at Hanging Rock’s vision of girlhood
Peter Weir’s 1975 film, like Joan Lindsey’s original novel, understands that being a teenage girl is an experience full of…
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Andrea Dworkin’s dispatches from the sex wars
In her 1981 treatise, Dworkin called porn “the orchestrated destruction of women’s bodies and souls”. Forty years later, has sex-positive…
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Samuel Beckett’s art of reduction
In The Unnamable, the writer’s prose was stripped to the bone – and the bone itself boiled white.
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s everyday dystopia
Never Let Me Go was once dismissed by critics for its “dear-diary” prose, but 20 years later the novelist’s masterwork…
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