Litteraturhistoria & litteraturkritik

'Who would you say knows himself?'In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an …

A new, beautifully illustrated translation of Felix Salten's celebrated novel Bambithe original source of the beloved story Most of us think we know the story of Bambibut do we? …

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path …

If you can speak and read English, you can write poetry.The trick is knowing where to start. Stephen Fry, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own …

Named by The Times as the all-time number one crime writer, Patricia Highsmith was an author who broke new ground and defied genre clich s with novels such as The Talented Mr …

Winner of the 2020 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate TheatreI looked at her, wanting her to laugh. Wanting her to share in the joke. But she didn't. She just …

Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ('a spellbinding achievement' - Susan Sontag): a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's intoxicating …

CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNERSHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018'Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le CarreA visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, …

'Superb ... There is no disputing the enormous knowledge, the sheer love of books that is gathered here' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY____________________A great and fascinating work from …

Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through …