The “unpublished” Larkin poem that wasn’t
Last week it was Shakespeare. This week it’s the turn of a more modern poet, Philip Larkin, to be the subject of a grand but ultimately false discovery. On Monday,… Read more »
Two students in a writing workshop discover they’re sisters
As anyone who’s attended a creative writing class knows, there are five unspoken rules. Number one is to be honest (but not too honest.) Number two is the duration of… Read more »
“Fierce Imaginative Possession”: Literature and Competition
Last week, Buzzfeed published an essay by the writer Isaac Fitzgerald about his encounters with books during his youth and early adulthood. In the piece, Fitzgerald described a few of… Read more »
Did Dante have narcolepsy?
Giusepi Plazzi, an Italian academic, recently wrote an unconventional essay on Dante and his famous Divine Comedy. Plazzi’s academic background might have suggested an odd approach: rather than working in… Read more »
The “bionic bookworm” bashes bloggers
Sir Peter Stothard, the subject of a profile in The Independent today, is the former editor of the Times Literary Supplement and a Man Booker Prize judge. The feature reveals… Read more »
Illuminations for Bartleby The Scrivener: Herman Melville’s Inexcusable Insanity
With the release of The Duel x5 earlier this year, Melville House announced a new digital innovation, HybridBooks, which combines the concept of a digitally enhanced eBook with the printed… 2 / Read more »