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Henry Somers-Hall interviewed by Brent Adkins: Reading A Thousand Plateaus
Read more: Henry Somers-Hall interviewed by Brent Adkins: Reading A Thousand PlateausHenry Somers-Hall talks to Brent Adkins (author of the bestselling critical introduction and guide to A Thousand Plateaus) about his new book, Reading A Thousand Plateaus, which takes us even deeper into Deleuze and Guattari's masterwork.
From Multiple Possible Worlds to Fission-Fusion Experience
From quantum theory to literary immersion, this blog examines how fission-fusion connects language, consciousness, and human experience.
Repetition After Originality: Why Saying It Again Still Matters
This blog rethinks repetition in literature, showing how repeated forms can generate innovation, disrupt meaning, and reshape poetic practice.
Contesting Language in the Seventeenth Century—and Now
From Milton to modern politics, this blog explores how language in the seventeenth century influenced struggles over authority, belief, and freedom.
Q&A with Michelle Honeybun, author of “‘His Vest, I Perceive, Is But Padded with Cotton!”: John Bull in Cotton Famine Poetry during the American Civil War (1861–5)’
This interview explores how John Bull became a literary and political figure in Victorian newspaper poetry during the American Civil War and the Cotton Famine.
Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of France
This interview explores how Christine of France used Baroque court spectacles to shape political authority, global imagination, and cultures of consumption.
Interview with Maggie Humm
Maggie Humm reflects on feminist criticism, life-writing, and Virginia Woolf’s influence.
Beyond ‘girlboss feminism’: queering Irish women’s writing
Naoise Murphy re-examines Irish women’s writing through queer and feminist perspectives, exposing how literary narratives can obscure violence and postcolonial complexity.
Q&A with the author of Artificial Fiction: Imagining Literary Possibility Beyond the Human
A Q&A with the author of Artificial Fiction on the idea of AI-created storytelling, and how nonhuman narratives reshape literary theory.
A famous old shepherd looks for remedies
Explore James Hogg’s writings on Scottish rural life, tracing the loss of communal culture and the social tensions of modern sheep-farming.