Literature

Patrick McGrath is one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists but very little has been written about his work to date. This new book offers r...

The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. ...

What Bruce Lack offers in the poems in Service is truthcomplex, ambiguous, paradoxical, contradictory, impossibleabout the experiences of a Marine ...

What Bruce Lack offers in the poems in Service is truthcomplex, ambiguous, paradoxical, contradictory, impossibleabout the experiences of a Marine ...

At the age of fifty Linda Chase began to publish poems, to win prizes, and to develop her skills as a performer of her own work and a facilitator a...

Will Eaves' first book of poems explores several continents, moods and stages of life. Common experience - of growing up, growing older, losing a p...

Kwiateks poems emit the uncanny luminosities of the artists worlds they refer to: those of Caspar David Friedrich, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Odilon Red...

Herbert Williams is one of Wales' most celebrated and distinguished writers. A man of many talents, he is a poet, novelist, short story writer and ...

'This book rests on a lifetimes thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in a more realistic light. Times Literary Supplement Although ...

In this collaborative work, photographer Rosamond Purcell and Shakespeare scholar Michael Witmore explore the transcendent emotion in Shakespeare's...

Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) was born to French parents in Montevideo, orphaned within a year of his birth, and grew up in Uruguay and France. He ...

Maxim Jakubowski, together with Nathan Braund, edited the bestselling Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper (1999), which has reprinted several times and...

This study of Bram Stoker focuses on Stoker as a Gothic writer. Identified with Dracula, Stoker is largely responsible for taking the Gothic away f...

Sensual and glimmering, Lorenzo Chieras elliptical fragments evoke nights of bawdy excess in Trastevere (City made of Roman ruins . . . / what a wh...