For Black History Month we’ve brought together star authors Ben Okri, Candice Carty-Williams and Caleb Azumah Nelson to discuss the past, present and future of black writing
Super Mario Brothers Karamazov: literature begins to take gaming seriously
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Early on in Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, one of the trio of lead characters gives a fictional interview to a very real video games publication. The troubled but passionate Samson Mazur tells...
English literature graduates: what did you gain from your degree?
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Sheffield Hallam University has announced that it will be suspending its degree in English literature amid concerns about cuts to the humanities in higher education. In light of the government’s crackdown on what mini...
Sheffield Hallam University suspends English literature degree
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Concern is mounting about the fate of the humanities in higher education after Sheffield Hallam University announced that it would be suspending its degree in English literature. A university spokesperson confirmed th...
Revisited: Britain’s rich history of black literature – podcast
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In Black History Month we brought together star authors Ben Okri, Candice Carty-Williams and Caleb Azumah Nelson to discuss the past, present and future of black writing How ...
Call for sentence review after neo-Nazi told to read classic literature
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The attorney general’s office has been asked to review whether an unduly lenient sentence was handed to a neo-Nazi who was ordered to read classic literature such as Pride and Prejudice. Ben John, who was convicted of...
UK judge orders rightwing extremist to read classic literature or face prison
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A former student who downloaded almost 70,000 white supremacist documents and bomb-making instructions has avoided a prison sentence “by the skin of his teeth” after being told to read classic literature by Dickens, 一种...
Penguin Classics launches ‘new canon’ of environmental literature
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From Greta Thunberg to James Lovelock, publisher Penguin Classics has come up with a “new canon” of the environmental literature, which it believes has “changed the way we think and talk about the living Earth”. The m...
‘I never found myself in a book’: Patricia Grace on the importance of Māori literature
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在 1987 I presented a paper at the Fourth Early Childhood Convention in Wellington. I titled the paper “Books Are Dangerous”. Always in my mind were the experiences of teaching reading in the small country schools, 一个...