By Igor R. Reyner It is evident that we are living in a particularly challenging time, where transformative and empathic…
Category: Language and Literature
Cultural Studies
Impress Me With Your Books: A Peek Into My Chapter in The Edinburgh History of Reading
by Nicole Gonzalez Lovely balance Andrew Neil. The open neck and rolled up sleeves tell us this is a relaxed,…
by Daniel Cook Still revered as one of the world’s great historical novelists, Sir Walter Scott kept coming back to…
By Laura McCormick Kilbride, Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, and Simone Kotva Is reading a theological activity? This is a question which…
William Sharp evokes ‘those wild Breton coasts of the Tréguier headland’ with the ‘grey, muttering waste’ of the sea. Little did I realise, when I must have read these phrases at the age of 14 on a cliff overlooking the north end of the village of Fairlie, in Ayrshire, Scotland that years later I would be living in that self-same area.
by Geoffrey Marsh Wednesday 31 December 1600 is one of the pivotal dates in English history. It was not only…
by Jürgen Pieters The painting on my new book’s cover was made by the Viennese artist Friedrich Frotzel (1898-1971). Its…
by Geoffrey Marsh Who were the most interesting ‘neighbours’ of that Living with Shakespeare explores? I tried to follow up…
by Adam Hansen I got a post-‘lockdown #3’ haircut in my Tyneside town recently, to my relief, and everyone else’s. …
by Geoffrey Marsh Given that there is little information about Shakespeare’s life, people ask what made me think there was…