Literary Studies
Holding a Mirror up to Nature: Shame, guilt, and violence in Shakespeare by James Gilligan and David A.J. Richards
by P. Kishore Saval •
Author and scholar Kevin Birmingham has shown that books as much as people are worthy subjects of biography. This year he has followed up The Most Dangerous Book, his award-winning account of the battle to get James Joyce’s Ulysses published, with The Sinner and the Saint, a book about the genesis of another classic: Crime and Punishment. In this week’s episode of The ABR Podcast, Geordie Williamson reads his review of Birmingham’s latest study, one which ‘brings microscopic detail and a sense of drama to the composition’ of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece.
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by Gary Pearce •
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a crime and its punishment by Kevin Birmingham
by Geordie Williamson •
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine by Will Loxley
by Paul Kildea •
Lines of Fire: Manning Clark and Other Writings by Peter Ryan
by Peter Pierce •
Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian modernism on stage, 1960–2018 by Denise Varney
by Jonathan Dunk •
A Matter of Obscenity: The politics of censorship in modern England by Christopher Hilliard
by Geordie Williamson •