Stories and literature
Stories and literature
idea
Forget ‘Little Women’. How did girls learn to be grown women?
by Julie Pfeiffer
Work and vocation
idea
Kafka warned us: surveillance turns the watched into watchers
by George Alliger
Stories and literature
guide
How to nurture a personal library
An escape, a sanctuary, a place of pleasure, a memoir. Take these steps to ensure your library is just what you want it to be
by Freya Howarth
Virtues and vices
film
A simple morality tale finds rich depth in the hands of a master animator
10 mins
Stories and literature
idea
Young women were the true originators of the Grimms’ Tales
by Christine Lehnen
Stories and literature
idea
In Viking sagas, the ‘truth’ is a tangle of history and fiction
by Anatoly Liberman
Stories and literature
guide
How to gain more from your reading
There’s more to words than meets the eye. Deepen your appreciation of literature through the art of slow, attentive reading
by Robert DiYanni
Poetry
film
An English teacher asks his class: ‘What’s the opposite of a gun?’
5 mins
Memoir
idea
If madness is like drowning, then writing is my raft ashore
by Azania Imtiaz Khatri-Patel
Poetry
idea
The long poem is just right for our confounding, fractured age
by Tess Somervell
Thinkers and theories
guide
How to deconstruct the world
Don’t believe everything you hear, read and watch. To puncture received ideas about culture, start thinking like Jacques Derrida
by Peter Salmon
Stories and literature
film
‘Once upon a time…’ Deconstructing our insatiable appetite for stories
5 mins