In the first part of our interview with Dan Gunn, editor of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, we discuss his experiences working on the series, his favourite letters and what we now know about Beckett that we didn't know before.
Read MoreAssembling The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein raised some interesting questions at the developmental stage about the type of coverage that students would find helpful. Frankenstein is a novel that is taught in a variety of contexts and courses, including modules on Romanticism, the Gothic, science fiction and gender studies, amongst many others. It is also […]
Read MoreWhen I began my biography of Nietzsche’s youth, The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche, I expected eventually to dislike my subject. Biographers frequently start by admiring their protagonists, then become hostile. Why should I be different? My experience, however, was the opposite. I found a great deal repellent in Nietzsche at the beginning, then decided that […]
Read More1861 This photograph, taken for Confirmation, was probably the first portrait of himself that Nietzsche had ever seen. Fundamentally pleased with it, he nonetheless acknowledged its homelier aspects: “My stance is hunched, my feet somewhat crooked, and my hand looks like a dumpling.” 1862 In this image Nietzsche seems quite a different person from […]
Read MoreLast weekend Shakespeare was certainly the most famous person on the planet, even more so than the Queen, Prince and President Obama. If you got as far as 23rd April without realising it was the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, you deserve to be woken as I was in Stratford-upon-Avon at 6am that morning […]
Read MoreJohn D. Lyons, editor of The Cambridge Companion to French Literature (2016) explains how best to handle the 1,000 year rich history of French Literature.
Read MoreBarry S C Leadbeater, author of The Choanoflagellates: Evolution, Biology and Ecology (2015) tells about his early career and why he chose to write his latest book.
Read MoreAs 2016 roars in, we take a look back at the most read blog posts of 2015.
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