Tag: books

'When the pandemic hit Ontario, William Faulkner was a cadet in the Canadian Royal Air Force. Writing home to his parents, he would bemoan the lengthiness of his base’s lockdown, and the protracted sense of time it engendered.'

'The concept of reimagining an existing story is relatively new in the context of storytelling, emerging more prominently in recent years.'

"It can feel, at times, that various sources are all fighting to influence you. Not Rabelais."

"If it were up to me, I would make every day International Book Giving Day."

"Modern editors aim to unanchor texts from their historical moorage."

"Z-Library opened up doors for people who were barred by too many locked doors."

"Here we are in a city of libraries, and it is never enough."

"Anne is such an iconic figure in children’s literature that I’m sure many relate to my enjoyment of her character"

Emerald Ace-Acquah reflects on the complexities of language, colonisation, and power, as explored in R. F. Kuang's new novel.

"If the structure of undergraduate life then had such adverse outcomes and is so worthy of condemnation – and the structure fundamentally hasn’t changed – what does that imply for Oxford now?"

I am well aware that for the sake of switching off from university, or from the cruel news about Ukraine, it is better to...

It is these expressions of Jewish life before the war - beset with jokes, neuroses, and anguish - which stay alive long after reading the texts. I would highly recommend.

a review of the book 'Stolen Focus' by Johann Hari

But it’s not good enough to leave it to often privileged tutors, canon-compilers and Education Secretaries to dictate which texts we study. Time and time again, they have failed to achieve even the remotest degree of representation, a damning outcome in a subject which is so linked to identity and the self. The texts we study at school and beyond should be chosen and shaped by the diverse populations reading them.