April 30, 2020 Puzzles, constraints and cryptograms: An Oulipo beginner’s primer By Karen Langley Although you may never have heard the name of the literary group Oulipo, there’s a good chance you might actually have…
September 25, 2018 Banned Books Week – The Russians By Karen Langley “The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him.” (Anais Nin) The banning of books is an…
August 3, 2017 Anthony Burgess Centenary – a Reading List By Rob Spence Anthony Burgess, whose centenary is celebrated this year, remarked ruefully on more than one occasion that he produced as many novels…
October 4, 2016 Woolfalong Written by Ali Hope My relationship with Virginia Woolf had a discouraging start when I first read To the Lighthouse in my very early twenties. It…
April 10, 2014 Zola – An Introduction To His Books By Victoria Best The OUP’s decision to publish some of the novels of Émile Zola that have not been in translation for more than…
