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American Literature: An Englishman Confesses his Ignorance

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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...

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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

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

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...

‘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...

Shakespeare's plays really are complicated - with Antony and Cleopatra the trickiest to get your head around, study find...

With their dense wordplay, old English phrases and complex poetic meter, Shakespeare plays can be notoriously difficult to understand.

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...

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...