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The author of Empireland sits down with Sophie Denny to discuss the importance of soaking in the Cambridge student experience and nuancing discussions about Empire   

Our literature, written in English, is deeply entwined with colonial era

What makes a great writer? A key element is the right teacher. Belinda Castles reflects on her own guides, as do authors such as Margaret Drabble, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Paul Theroux in a new book.

Partially inspired by Homer's Iliad, the British author's debut novel centres on a trio of youths living in a fictionalised town in northern England

With his new book 'The Critical Revolutionaries,' Terry Eagleton focuses on the scholars who revolutionized literary study and foreshadowed the New Criticism movement that became widespread in mid-century American universities.

How modern literary criticism came to be – with a little help from TS Eliot, FR Leavis, Raymond Williams and others

Terry Eagletons richly informed writing is enhanced by perspicacity, wit, and discrimination. Yet his focus on five writers in Critical Revolutionaries is missing something.

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