literature
Being Humanities: an event to launch Reading’s School of Humanities
Exploring the The Diasporic Literary Archives Network
The Diasporic Literary Archives Network, based in the University of Reading since 2012, set out to explore the distribution of literary archives around the world, with a special focus on…Read More >
Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Literature Prize, and a Challenge to White Fragility
NPR, the US American public radio station, was broadcasting some critical reporting on the day of the announcement of the 2021 Nobel Literature Prize, 7 October. The journalists were discussing…Read More >
Impressionism’s sibling rivalry
Sixty world-famous impressionist paintings arrived at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from Copenhagen in March last year, a whisker before the first lockdown was imposed. Instead of drawing…Read More >
Teaching Holocaust Testimonies
As an adolescent boy, growing up in the 1960s, I used to enjoy playing with my newly minted Action Man. I would dress him up in various army uniforms and…Read More >
Man Booker Prize winner could open floodgates for American novelists
By David Brauner, Professor of Contemporary Literature, University of Reading Lincoln in the Bardo is a worthy winner of the Man Booker Prize and is further confirmation of the supremacy…Read More >