Critique

In August the Department of Education announced that GCSE students would be allowed to drop poetry as a subject in their 2021 exams, prompting protests by what the Daily Mail called “celebrity

Can the Recherche be adapted and remain Proust? And should it really be seen as therapy?

John Buchan was a writer with a rich hinterland—and an affection for “shockers”

Sir Les Patterson or Poundbury, Roy Wood or Richard Rogers, dodgy clubs or lusty yeomen?

The key to the poet’s early obsession with girls’-school stories may lie with his sister Kitty

Against all the odds, the study of Classics is increasing in popularity — and for very good reasons

The salons of Vienna were key spaces for promoting the emancipation of women and Jews

The great critic’s letters reveal his struggles with anti-Semitism and disillusion with Marxism

Edward Said accused the poet of Orientalist prejudice — but he owed much to Muslim tradition