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When Netflix released its limited series “The Queen’s Gambit” last year, who would have predicted that a show about a girl chess prodigy would reach the # 1 spot in 63 countries? The international success of the series (based on the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis) suggests that audiences across the globe were eager to […]
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In a time when heat domes, wildfires, and floods regularly author human and nonhuman tragedy, the nature and magnitude of human-driven climate change understandably dominates media headlines, bestseller lists, and streaming-service titles alike. Ecological issues – and the roles of human beings within them – continue to attract the energies of artists and audiences, whether […]
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This month, we celebrate publication of A History of Irish Women’s Poetry. I asked a handful of the volume’s authors to tell us something about each of their chapters. Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, NUI Galway: ‘Women in the Medieval Poetry Business’ Úallach (†934) daughter of Muimnechán is called banḟile Érenn in her obituary, a title that […]
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Shortly after William Shakespeare’s famous words, “all the world’s a stage,” were uttered in the opening performance of As You Like It in the new Globe theater, the Red Dragon set sail to found the East India Company’s first factories. Coincidentally, the same ship, docked off the coast of Sierra Leone, was the site of […]
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Wordsworth and Keats in a painting by Haydon.
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Tom Stoppard is one of the world’s most lauded and commercially successful playwrights, author of more than a dozen award-winning and profitable plays for the West End and Broadway. He has also been successful in film, co-writing the Oscar-winning screenplay Shakespeare in Love, and serving as a frequent script-doctor for Steven Spielberg and other Hollywood […]
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Most readers recognize E. M. Forster as the early twentieth-century writer who wrote about India; some remember his socially relevant and thematically wide-ranging Edwardian novels and short stories, and a posthumously published novel about male homosexuality. What many might not have known is that, in 1969, Benjamin Britten praised Forster as ‘our most musical novelist’. […]
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