Can We Read the Bible?
The scholar James Barr was once asked which of the English translations of the Bible gave the best account of …
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Honest to Poetry: The Bible as Literature
The Bible is a work of literature. That’s a relatively uncontentious statement, but one which has made a major impact …
Student Blogging: Veering Off Course
I’ve been delighted by the responses to my piece asking students about their blogging. A slew of people have emailed …
Hate Reading and Bad Romance: Reading Honestly
This is my third piece about the “integrity” of discourse, sparked by a passage of Rowan Williams. After I discussed …
Talking Like A Book: Authors and Audiobooks
I really like audiobooks. This probably shouldn’t surprise me as much as it does: after all, I work on performance …
Reading the Classics, Rereading Ourselves
The classics are those books about which you usually hear people saying: ‘I’m rereading…’, never ‘I’m reading….’ Italo Calvino’s first …
Hamlet and Harley Quin, or, “From Minor to Major”
Miss Climpson, Harley Quin, Joe Sixsmith, Montague Egg: if you’ve heard of these people you clearly have excellent taste. If …
