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Review of Heaney’s Beowulf Now In Features
Back in 2000, when the world was young, Sarah Coley wrote an excellent review of Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf…
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Featured Article: The Shakespeared Brain
I have just added an article by Philip Davis on the neurological effects of reading Shakespeare to the Features page.…
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Venetian dreams
I have just (reluctantly) returned from Venice and although my body is back in England, my spirit has stayed there.…
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Ian MacMillan–New Reader Regular
Philip Davis, editor of The Reader writes to say that Ian MacMillan, poet, performer and broadcaster is to become a…
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The All-new Reader Website
As of today The Reader has a new website, which includes news and information about the magazine, about Reader community…
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Upcoming TV Adaptations
Angela Macmillan made contact to point out that the BBC is working on several interesting-looking TV adaptations of eighteenth and…
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Philip Roth Discusses Everyman
Philip Roth is one of my favourite writers; he is one of the few writers whose prose seems like it…
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Pitmatic
Earlier in the week a dictionary of the lost language of Pitmatic was reviewed in The Guardian. Coming from a…
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Recommended Reads: Poppy Shakespeare
I have just finished reading Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allen. Set in a North London day hospital, Allen draws on…
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The Poetry of Les Murray
Les Murray, sometimes of this parish, features in this week's New Yorker in a review article by Dan Chiasson. Chiasson…