Poem of the week: A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley | Michael Longley

Poem of the week: A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley | Michael Longley

A Hundred Doors God! I’m lighting candles again, stillThe sentimental atheist, familyNames a kind of prayer or poem, my museOur Lady of a Hundred Doors. Supervised by a xenophobicSacristan, I plant in... Read more »
Charles Dickens’s ‘sliding doors’ moment: how a cold turned an aspiring thespian into a writer | Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’s ‘sliding doors’ moment: how a cold turned an aspiring thespian into a writer | Charles Dickens

As a sliding doors moment, it leads to arguably one of the greatest “what if?” questions in literary history. Passionate about the theatre, Charles Dickens, then just 20, wrote to the famous... Read more »
“The Door’s Still Locked”: Fiction after Fascism

“The Door’s Still Locked”: Fiction after Fascism

What unites Jordan Peele’s Us, Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, R. F. Kuang’s Yellowface, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (remade into a Hulu series), and the most recently viral Severance? We might call... Read more »
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