This is the best comeback you’re going to read all day. A series of letters recently discovered in the private apartments of George Orwell have revealed that Animal Farm, so often believed to be an allegory of Stalinist corruption of socialist ideals, was actually as far more personal book to the author. In fact, these … Continue reading
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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The President seems happy, tweeting that ‘Alt Whitman is a great word man and a great American’ before threatening to imprison the librarian who told him he couldn’t eat chips in the library when he was twelve Continue reading