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Sylvia Plath Reads ‘Daddy’
This astonishing short film in which Sylvia Plath reads her poem 'Daddy' comes as quite a surprise. Not only does…
The Literary Feedback Loop
There's a lot of discussion in American book circles these days about the declining coverage of books in major newspapers,…
On The Road: Kerouac Roundup
September marks the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, notorious for being written on a single roll…
Managing The Library of Babel
Jorge Luis Borges' story 'The Library of Babel' proposes a library so vast it contains all possible books, but is…
The Fabric of Quotations: Literature and Interactivity
Back in the 1980s, when the Sinclair Spectrum seemed the pinnacle of personal computing, English departments were arguing over the…
Booker 2007 Shortlist
The shortlist for this year's Man Booker prize was announced today with most newspapers, including The Guardian focussing on Ian…
Language That Moves
Tyler Meier has posted an interesting piece on the Kenyon Review blog about figurative language and its role in making…
Offset Your Reading
Carbon offsetting is all the rage at the moment. Take a short flight somewhere warm for some well-earned beach time…
Voices from the past
by Angela Macmillan One of the great things about the Internet is the wealth of material that would never see…
Forward Poetry Prize Nominee Eleanor Rees
Jane Davis writes to point out that Liverpool poet Eleanor Rees has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best…
Winter Blues
Writer and editor Helen Tookey is already predicting the start of autumn and the approach of winter and to make…
Rebel Girls
Rebel Girls: their fight for the vote is a new book by Jill Liddington, about the forgotten suffragettes across the…
