Japan's neglected Nobel
Soundings in Times
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Romantics steeped in rhythmic rebellion
Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition
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Weaving a tale of an old basket-case
Jonathan Swift
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A poet exposed
Singing School
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Conrad's dark heart
Joseph Conrad
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Frontline satirist
Siegfired Sassoon
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Sweet literary jargon
The Novel
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The lure of 'lies'
Writing the Lives of Writers
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the world's first epic: "He who saw the Deep, the country's foundation, who knew ..., was wise in all...
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Othello as a voice for whiteness
Postcolonial Shakespeares - Colonialism/Postcolonialism - Salman Rushdie
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The sun that set colonialists and colonised ascribbling
Empire Writing - The Stepmother Tongue
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Hybrid Bhabha
Can Homi Bhabha's work in academia really combat racism in the Metropolitan Police? Jennifer Wallace talks to the would-be champion ofthe oppressed Human rights are relational rather than given. They...
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Intrigue in a Cambridge rose garden
What happens when a handful of women try to transform a college that has been a bastion of male scholarship in Cambridge for 700 years? Peterhouse's eight women fellows reveal all It's hard to change...
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Are there still two hopelessly divided cultures?
No: Simon Jenkins, The Times columnist "Snow drew a false dichotomy. There is one culture and science is a specialism within it in the same way that archaeology or mathematics or languages are all...
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'Thirty years ago the cultures at least managed a frozen smile across the gulf. Now the politeness has gone and they just make faces'
So said C. P. Snow in his famous 'Two cultures' lecture. What's changed 40 years on? Simon Midgley finds out Forty years ago Charles Percy Snow, scientist, public administrator and novelist, coined a...