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Breaking the ‘you loop’
The novelist Hari Kunzru has a concern. And no, it isn’t about the death of publishing. Or piracy, or plagiarism, or even the thought …
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Shakespeare would have had a blog
Literary criticism is notoriously prone to the pat and the pretentious. A few years ago Tom Payne brilliantly lampooned ”the words that …
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Love me, love my books
For bibliophiles, books are relationship brokers. Whether discovering a mutual passion for Potter on a first date, bonding over the sensuality of 18th-century Japanese yomihon, or placing …
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In praise of short plays
This spring I’ve seen two plays called “War and Peace”, one very long and one very short. Shared Experience’s adaptation at the Royal Court, part of …
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Surreal truths in the homecoming
Of the many adjectives we use to describe theatre, “surreal” is London’s meaningless mot du jour. Nowadays it is used to indicate a vague kind of …