Festive re-readsFestive re-reads: David Copperfield by Charles DickensContinuing our series of Guardian writers picking the titles to revisit this Christmas, Sam Jordison recommends the great Victorian writer’s ‘favourite child’
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I’m aware that this must hardly be the first time you’ve had David Copperfield pressed on you. Not that I have any compunction about recommending such a masterpiece again. Read More...
Woolwich attack This article is more than 10 years oldLee Rigby murder: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale found guiltyThis article is more than 10 years oldOld Bailey jury finds pair guilty of fatally attacking soldier in street near Woolwich barracks in south LondonTwo men have been convicted of murdering a soldier in broad daylight near a military barracks in London, in the first al-Qaida-inspired attack to claim a life on British soil since 7 July 2005. Read More...
Books blogPoetryPlath's sonnet of sophisticated hopelessnessSylvia's recently unveiled poem displays a sense of 'been there, done that' knowingness.'Ennui', the newly discovered undergraduate sonnet by Sylvia Plath (read it in full here), is very much about craft, about delivering a tough resonant argument. It is concerned with the art of rhetoric, densely and self-consciously built, full of literary references and brandishing its knowingness.
In fact knowingness is at the heart of its gesture. Read More...
