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American Literature: An Englishman Confesses his Ignorance

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Actors operating giant puppets depicting Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, writer Nikolai Gogol and author Fyodor Dostoevsky perform on a street in St. Petersburg. -AFP

The forgotten masterpiece that helped shape the modern English language

by Eliot Wilson, CityAM As our new Education Secretary rethinks how we learn about language, Eliot Wilson on one of the most forgotten and seminal English texts Five hundred years...

Why Study English?

Why Study English? Elizabeth Redden Tue, 07/21/2026 - 03:00 AM Here’s how we should answer. Byline(s) William Gruber

Literature, the sick man of arts funding

Literature within the reader and the writer

In Yahya bin Salam al Mundhiri’s three stories collected under the title A Brief Moment of Panic, published by Arab Publishing House, fear takes many forms: fear of loss, lonelines...

I used to hate Shakespeare ... until a 200-year-old book changed my mind

I got in an argument once with a guy who was dismissing white, Anglo-Saxon culture, saying it was overrated and overrepresented. He thought Americans needed to learn about other cu...

Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one yearThousands of university job cuts in humanities and social scien...

Cambridge: ‘Think themselves wise, but are fools’

Where now does Cambridge University turn? How can it ever recover the respect its 817 years of quality higher education have earned it? William Shakespeare, scholarly, but not of a...

‘No Tyndale, No Shakespeare’: How the Bible made Modern English

“The book that the famed British Library once called the most significant in the English language was nearly destroyed before it was even printed. That book was William Tyndale’s 1...

Trivia Quiz: Who Wrote It? Nineteenth Century American Authors

Braingle's Daily Trivia Quiz for Aug 12, 2026 A Literature > Authors Quiz : This quiz will test your knowledge of who composed famous nineteenth century American literary wor...