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Featured Poem: from Dr. Faustus
We're stretching the definition of 'poem' a little bit this week to enjoy this famous speech from Christopher Marlowe's The…
How Books Die
April 23 is UNESCO World Book Day and over at the Kenyon Review Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky has a gloriously hangdog post…
Blogging: The Truth
I am unable to comment on the similarity between the facility shown in this film and the offices of The…
Booze and the Book
Some writers claim to be able to write when drunk and a few even claim it helps. I'm not one…
Featured Poem: ‘Lucy Gray’ by William Wordsworth
Wordsworth's poem 'Lucy Gray' (1799) is one of his best known. Reading it recently with my daughter--who is fascinated with…
Links We Liked for April 11, 2008
Tony Harrison is one of my favourite poets. His writing is muscular and forceful yet manages also to be moving…
The Rise and Rise of Bibliotherapy
Carly Townsend is a third year English Language and Literature student at the University of Liverpool. The French philosopher Charles…
Links We Liked for April 2, 2008.
I've been away staying in a muddy field for a week or so and I spent most of Monday trying…
Reading and Health–Latest Research
(Above) Someone who may have benefited from reading. Through its Get Into Reading initiative The Reader Organisation has been promoting…
Favourite Poems Read by Animals
If there is one thing the Web has taught us it is that a lot of people have too much…
Japanese Diary: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Flier
Kimberley Long is a former Reader volunteer currently teaching English in Japan. For my Christmas visit home I chose a…
So Spirited A Town–Nicholas Murray Interview
Over at The Book Depository Mark Thwaite has been interviewing Nicholas Murray about his next book, So Spirited A Town:…
