Literature: History & Criticism

Two Irish Girls in Bohemia: The Drawings and Writings of Somerville and Martin Ross

Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing

Art styles not defined by date, Art forms, Memoirs, Literary essays, Philosophy: aesthetics, Society & culture: general

How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport?

What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. 

The Literary History of a Meal

Aristotle’s phrase ‘Every realm of nature is marvellous’ serves as an underlying and unifying motif for this volume of original essays on Aristotelian thought.

These diverse essays provide the reader with a fascinating series of lenses through which to view the achievement of Heaney's work and its lasting impact on the world of language and art. 

On 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the show's thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking, according to one paper, 'like a farm boy in his Sunday best'.