When eleven year old Harry Potter super-fan Quentin Queck wrote a letter to J.K. Rowling late last year, he wasn’t expecting a reply. Queck, who describes himself as the ultimate Harry Potter fan, merely wanted Rowling to know how much the character meant to him, and how the themes of friendship, perseverance and the cutting … Continue reading
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You Are Claudius. Can You Casually Order Enough Ear Poison to Kill Your Brother and Kick Off the Plot to Hamlet?
To ear poison or not to ear poison, that is the question Continue reading
New letters reveal that The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe originally had Aslan stop what he’s doing to tell the kids that life begins at conception
‘Hey, if Tolkien can include like ninety pages of a small man singing to a tree because it ate his friend then I can include this!’ Continue reading
Wow! Ayn Rand’s Theme Park, Ayn Land, Is Finally Open to the Public
Greetings Free Thinkers. Tis I, Ayn Rand, the favourite author of many fifteen year old white males and also Paul Ryan. Now I know what you’re thinking. ‘Isn’t she dead?’ Well, yes and no. Death is communist, because everybody does it, so I refused to die, and uploaded my consciousness onto a disk. Unfortunately, said … Continue reading
You Are Dante Alighieri: Can You Put Everybody Who Was Ever Mean to You in Hell?
In this Clickity-Lit Quizventure, you are Dante Alighieri, poet and failed politician. Taking up your pen, it’s time to take revenge on those who wronged you by putting them in Hell. But can you do it? Only time will tell… Continue reading
Epic!!! One Avid Reader Has Proven That The Characters in Paradise Lost Never Take Off Their Shoes
I don’t use the word ‘hero’ often. Usually I only use it to describe everybody who manages to climb a hill at some point, and not even really a steep hill, but in this case I am willing to make an exception. Eric Sandcastleton loves Paradise Lost, and after thirty years of close reading of … Continue reading
Jane Eyre: Newly Unearthed Letters show That Mr. Rochester Was Originally Intended to Have Hidden a Wife in Every Room of His 416 Room Mansion
Charlotte Bronte’s* Jane Eyre is considered a classic in literary history, and rightly so. Its themes of dying of easily preventable diseases and women being inside rooms remain as relevant today as they were when she first wrote them. But evidence unearthed recently indicate that Jane Eyre could have been a very different novel. In … Continue reading
Ten Things Literary Scholars Are Sick of Hearing
When you specialise in literature, people seem to have a list of things that they want to say to you. It’s all good fun for the most part, but some are so repetitive that it just starts to get annoying. Here are the most significant ten. Literature? don’t you just fuck around and read books? … Continue reading
Great News! H.P. Lovecraft Scholar Says That The Racism In His Books Was ‘Pretty Typical For the Era, So, You Know, Don’t Worry About It’
I love me some H.P. Lovecraft. His stories about weird shit happening and words I can’t pronounce have helped shape the horror genre as it is today. But in every story there’s a moment where he’s like ‘and this is the fault of black people’ or says something else incredibly racist. Awkward!!!!! This brings up … Continue reading