How cancel culture destroyed the campus novel
Fifty years ago, Tom Sharpe’s Porterhouse Blue skewered academic life. Today, our campuses are so close to parody that satire is redundant
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Fifty years ago, Tom Sharpe’s Porterhouse Blue skewered academic life. Today, our campuses are so close to parody that satire is redundant
Petrarch, who died 650 years ago, is in danger of neglect. But anyone who has ever been in love should read his sonnets
This highly anticipated staging of Dominique Morisseau’s 2016 play emerges as a trenchant critique of the excesses of capitalism
The award-winning author is celebrated in America, but strangely ignored in the UK. We are missing a treat