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