Careless whispers: the contagious curse at the heart of Macbeth
An original analysis of Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy, Macbeth – with a twist.
The significance of the colour white in Fahrenheit 451
The colour white appears an awful lot in Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451. In fact, it’s crucial to the book’s core themes.
Explainer: Notes on Nationalism, by George Orwell
Like 1984, Orwell’s ‘Notes on Nationalism’ feels eerily prescient of today’s political landscape – despite being published in 1945.
The Machine Stops: how E.M. Foster predicted the internet in 1909
The Machine Stops predicts the internet – and the dangers of going digital.
How to read more in 2020
Want to read more this year? Here are four ways to flex your reading muscle.
Is Jack Finney’s book ‘The Body Snatchers’ about paranoia?
Published in 1955, Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers captures a community – and country – gripped by fear and mistrust.