Has Edwin Drood’s mystery finally been outed? Dr. Holly Furneaux of Leicester University exposes “the secret queer side” of Charles Dickens’ male characters in an article on the Telegraph site.
Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka thinks that England’s role in producing home-grown Islamicist fundamentalists stems from the nation’s imperialist roots, a recurring theme in many of his works.
“Just because a book is out of print doesn’t mean it belongs to Google. It belongs to me.” So says Philip Pullman in a Guardian article. Pullman is angered, like many other British writers, by Googles’s attempt to create the world’s biggest online library.
Faber editor Lee Brackstone doesn’t think that Morrisey, Pound, Plath, Larkin, Hughes and Heaney make for strange bedfellows. Brackstone is trying to woo ex-Smith Morrissey to “the House of Eliot,” but this “load of bum-snogging grovelling” however, seems to have upped the competition.
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