Last time I ended with thoughts on the complex masculinities explored through Colm Tóibín’s Orestes in his novel House of Names. This...

It’s very fashionable at the moment to rewrite Greek Myths. Perhaps Margaret Atwood began it with The Penelopiad, her 2005 rewriting of...

For my first blog of 2024 I thought I’d write about poetry for a change. I’ve been thinking a lot about the First World War recently,...