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My version of Animal Farm would look at how the slave revolt works itself out; it would explore ideas of…
Each time I return to Middlemarch l find it has changed; on first reading it was the story of Dorothea,…
John Harrison on the traces we leave behind. John Harrison describes his investigations into the earliest human societies, and what…
At awards season, scripts of newly-released films find their way online as studios and agents quietly upload PDFs of screenplays…
Mark McCrum speaks with James McConnachie about ghostwriting, TV troubles and Robbie Williams. Mark McCrum speaks with James McConnachie about…
When I’m writing a play I do sometimes imagine the audience reacting to a particular moment but not usually by…
I was reading Chekhov short stories soon after the birth and the thought came to me that if I tried…
The questionable joys of running a bookshop. As the child of bookshop owners, Simon Rae grew up knowing that running…
Gabriel Gbadamosi’s talisman is a cultural counterpart.
Frankenstein-like, I assemble the whole from whatever components I have to hand. Frankenstein-like, I assemble the whole from whatever components…
Michael McMillan takes us on a tour of his highly interdisciplinary creative career. Michael McMillan takes us on a tour…
Advice from tutors is usually sound because they are thinking about the craft; advice from publishers is frequently disastrous. Advice…
