• A green field with a hedge in the left background. The field is covered with thin, eerie mist.
A picture of Baghdad

Writing about the People of Iraq

by Catherine Cobham and Fabio Caiani 23 March 2023 marked the twentieth anniversary of the attack on Iraq. Predictably, western mainstream media made little or no reference to contemporary Iraqi culture. Recently, however, there has been a growing interest in…

The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000

Where is the twenty-first century British novel headed?  The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 answers this question in the light of three recent literary developments.  The first is aesthetic:  early twentieth-first century novelists are going beyond conventional realism, and in…