Angela Carter and the Modern Fairy Tale
Share Don’t talk to strangers, especially the unassuming, handsome ones! Our parents drum this into our innocent little minds as kids, usually the first time we walk to school ourselves or the first time we are allowed to play beyond their line of sight. Little did we know then that this wise warning was handed...
Capturing 9/11 in literature: is it too soon?
Share Writers, like the rest of us, realised the consequential enormity of that day. Indeed, soon after 9/11, Martin Amis noted, “all the writers on earth were reluctantly considering a change of occupation.” Some writers were compelled to write about the events of that day and immediacy was important: in the raw aftermath, writers instinctively...
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