In light of Ben Wheatley’s new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, Rosie Best returns to the novel and explores how writer and director manipulate one character’s… Read more “Du Maurier, Danvers and dress: clothes and characterisation in Rebecca”
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Poetech: Shall I compare thee to GPT-3? Shakespeare v AI
How will GPT-3’s reimagining of a Shakespeare classic hold up under literary scrutiny?
‘Whatever people say I am, that’s what I’m not’: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Alan Sillitoe’s 1958 novel has been praised for its authentic depiction of postwar Nottingham. But does its innovative style cast off the label of ‘realist’?
What did Duke Ellington have to say about racism?
The bandleader and composer was reserved in talking about his experiences of racism. But his music speaks volumes
The sound of silence in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Morrison demonstrates how imagining music in the mind’s ear can function in literature
Candid Book Club: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Be tickled and tortured by one of Dostoevsky’s most admired works
Candid Book Club: The Baroness
A story of war, jazz and the rebellious Rothschild who entertained Einstein and was moved by Monk
Candid Book Club: Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s philosophical blockbuster is more millennial than outmoded
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