Can We Read the Bible?

June 18, 2016

The scholar James Barr was once asked which of the English translations of the Bible gave the best account of …

Honest to Poetry: The Bible as Literature

December 7, 2015

The Bible is a work of literature. That’s a relatively uncontentious statement, but one which has made a major impact …

December 31, 2013

I’ve been delighted by the responses to my piece asking students about their blogging. A slew of people have emailed …

December 20, 2013

This is my third piece about the “integrity” of discourse, sparked by a passage of Rowan Williams. After I discussed …

September 10, 2013

I really like audiobooks. This probably shouldn’t surprise me as much as it does: after all, I work on performance …

September 3, 2013

The classics are those books about which you usually hear people saying: ‘I’m rereading…’, never ‘I’m reading….’ Italo Calvino’s first …

February 25, 2012

Miss Climpson, Harley Quin, Joe Sixsmith, Montague Egg: if you’ve heard of these people you clearly have excellent taste. If …