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Private passions and Italian families
Stefania Ciocia takes a sideways look at Dante
Mia Forbes looks at The Karamazov Brothers
The Devil is in the Details: Mia Forbes looks at Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel, considered by many to be his finest.
Stephen Carver looks at Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Stephen Carver looks at Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of ‘the duality of man’.
Sally Minogue looks at Down and Out in Paris and London & The Road to Wigan Pier
‘At least I could go amongst these people, see what their lives were like’: Sally Minogue looks at George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier.
Janet Brown looks at The Descent of Man
On the 150th anniversary of its publication, Janet Browne looks at the initial controversy over Charles Darwin’s ‘The Descent of Man’ and its subsequent political consequences
‘It’s a Sin’
As ‘It’s a Sin’ comes to the end of its run on Channel 4, and we celebrate LGBTQ+ History month, Sally Minogue looks at the sometimes hidden history of diverse sexualities in literature.
Dante 2021 and the hills we climb
Stefania Ciocia basks in the light of two radiant literary visions
The Personal is the Political: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Sally Minogue reflects on the connection between the two in George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’.
David Stuart Davies looks at The Way We Live Now
David Stuart Davies considers what many believe to be Anthony Trollope’s greatest work.