Intertexuality
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26.08 John Buchan
Is there anything more unsettling than not knowing what’s real and what isn’t?
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Sharp Dressed Man: Costume in King Lear
I’ve learned to embrace my own scruffiness, but at the same time I HATE the idea that my students live in a world where, increasingly, appearance equals personality or worth. When you put the right clothes on the wrong person … ?
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24.07 Madeline Miller
‘Who wants to live forever?’, as Queen sang in 1986. On her birthday, let’s explore that idea through Madeline MIller’s retellings (with a little help from Tennyson, Edna St Vincent Millay, and Stephen King).
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20.07 Cormac McCarthy
We probably all have a book or two we are frightened of reading. Exploring why makes me readier to hit ‘The Road’ with Cormac McCarthy.
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18.07 Jane Austen
On Jane Austen’s anniversary, don’t begin by rereading Austen. Read something she could never have imagined. Then come back.
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10.07 John Wyndham
Wyndham’s distinctively British Science Fiction is about much, much more than just man-eating plants or weird children.
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07.07 Jeff VanderMeer
Weird Fiction isn’t about impossible worlds. Perhaps it’s about discovering that we’ve been looking at the possible one through only a narrow slice of the spectrum.
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From The Archives: 24.06.19
Seven years ago, my eldest was married. I asked Gayle Rubin, Germaine Greer, and Brinda Charry to help me articulate some ideas on marriage in Shakespeare. I’m pleased to say the marriage, and their views, have aged better than I have.
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03.03 Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen understood that perspective can be terrifying as a reality-check. The universe doesn’t revolve around us, as individuals or as a species.
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01.03 Ralph Ellison
Like so many other authors, Ellison challenges us about the moral blindness which renders groups of people invisible.