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Immerse yourself in the captivating world of literature with our collection of articles, offering literary analysis, book recommendations, author spotlights, and thought-provoking discussions that celebrate the written word.
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ByLiterature is booming. Literary culture needs to catch up.
ByAnd Dostoevsky is here too!
ByThe best-selling genre in publishing combines magical worlds, steamy sex and unfortunate prose.
ByStefan Collini’s new book explores why such a prestigious academic discipline finds itself on the margins of modern society.
ByThe writer on family, class and life lessons from a decade in America.
ByFor Virginia Woolf, stream of consciousness was a method. Now, it’s a way of life.
ByCan good writing solve our crisis of masculinity?
ByEpic sexual promiscuity was the key to White’s literary output.
ByHow Richard Ellmann’s capacious 1959 biography shaped modern life writing.
ByCan a small and unassuming bundle of fibres really be the key to better health and a longer life?
ByThe novel promises an ending. But world events will not be so neatly contained.
ByMy unheated home wasn’t a temporary discomfort. The chill got into my bones.
ByThe modernist phenomenon believed bad attention was better than none at all.
ByThe great American writer witnessed the forging of his nation – but Ron Chernow’s portrait cannot see beyond its subject.
ByA BBC series considers the novelist's three great themes: sex, nature and class.
ByLeo Robson’s family saga, set during the 2012 Olympics, is both a comedy and a study of grief.
ByThe Patrick Melrose novels and his other works are clearly by the same writer – but produce wildly different results.
ByThe Italian writer was drawn to fascism – but became an unsparing chronicler of the carnage of war.
ByThe late British writer produced novels haunted by uprootings, death, and the twilight of the British Empire.
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