Category Archives: Literature

Why Are Novels By Women So Easy To Read?

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Luke Ford

Because they don’t use the difficult vocabulary more common to male writers.

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Is This The End Of English Literature?

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Luke Ford

A.N. Wilson writes: What do the following have in common: Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, T S Eliot, W B Yeats, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Evelyn Waugh, Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis? The answer is, of … Continue reading →

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Anglo-Jewish Literature Raises Its Voice

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Luke Ford

Professor Donald Weber writes on JBooks.com: Feeling uprooted in London almost 20 years ago, [Philip] Roth himself spoke harshly of his experience as a de-territorialized‚ Jewish writer-intellectual living half of each year in England. As he explained in a 1988 … Continue reading →

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