Breyten Breytenbach's prison narrative The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist provides an interesting response to life in prison. Breytenbach, one of South Africa's best-known Afrikaner poets,...
The world has been watching (and perhaps smirking) at the election problems of the nation sometimes considered the "leader of the free world". Much less media attention has focused on the roughly 4...
Richard Pevear explains why the first new translation into English in 40 years of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was necessary Why is there a need for a new translation of Anna Karenina ? The version by...
Portraying themselves as victims, men are reasserting their cultural dominance, says Sally Robinson There's a scene in David Fincher's film Fight Club where the narrator faces a Gucci underwear ad...
The issues involved in translation require and foster critical and associative thinking, heightened reading skills, and an increased interest in and understanding of other cultures. All too often,...
The internet has created a new literary genre in Japan but some of its features have much in common with the classics. Toru Kiuchi examines a medium where anything goes When the 18th-century English...
The MLA's conference has been called a 'passion of solemnity', but with subjects ranging from Greek musicals to jailed writers, you are bound to find something to your taste, says Tim Cornwell...
In Search of the Black Madonna (11.00 am R4). Bonnie Greer wonders about the power of "Black Madonna" icons in Europe from medieval times on. First of two programmes. Culture Fix (11.30 am BBC...
Socialism has had setbacks in the 25 years since young leftwinger Gordon Brown edited The Red Paper on Scotland . Bob Tait joined a gathering to discuss the way forward. It was, on the face of it, an...
You can call a room above a kebab shop a university and make millions, but such degree mills harm UK higher education, says Matthew Chapman. It is a little known fact that Green Lanes in a quiet...
Metamorpheus (Sunday 8.15 BBC2) is a rarity that’s welcome for more than one reason. Firstly, it’s concerned with Greek mythology, a subject that doesn’t surface much on television these days outside...
Agriculture in Britain has sunk to a nadir last seen during the Great Depression. Farmers were once the bedrock of British society and a powerful voice in the land, but who now cares what becomes of...
FINANCIAL TIMES Researchers at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University have reported that they have altered the flow of electricity through tiny carbon nanotubes by...
New York institute gets $130m gift An anonymous donor has given $130 million to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, to build a biotechnology research building and an electronic media...
Clinton visits Warwick Bill Clinton, president of the United States, visits the University of Warwick today to deliver a speech on globalisation. The university has had to provide parking space for...