How author E.M Forster predicted the internet in 1909
E.M. Forster didn’t just predict the internet in his short story The Machine Stops – he foresaw the dangers of the digital age.
How to read more in 2020
Want to read more this year? Here are four ways to flex your reading muscle.
The Body Snatchers is a study in paranoia
Published in 1955, Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers captures a community – and country – gripped by fear and mistrust.
4 lessons for writers in The World According to Garp
John Irving’s novel, The World According to Garp, is about a writer. As such, it contains and reflects the reality of writing for a living.
The Stepford Wives nailed ‘feminist dystopia’ a decade before The Handmaid’s Tale
In The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin imagines a creepy, claustrophobic world in which women are man-made, and feminism doesn’t exist.
6 books about not fitting in
Literature loves a misfit. Here are 6 books which explore themes of isolation, alienation, fitting in – and doing your own thing.