‘English’ 3

‘English’ 3

Over the past month or so, I’ve been mulling over Marion Thain’s brilliantly suggestive essay on the nature and future of English as a discipline, which has helped me to notice things that otherwise might have passed me by. Barely a week after its appearance, for...
Reading John Edgar Wideman’s ‘Fever’.

Reading John Edgar Wideman’s ‘Fever’.

In the early morning I run through Beckenham Place Park which is cut in two by the trainline to Victoria. Half-empty carriages click-clack past carrying the remaining few commuters into the city. I have missed reading books in the Victorian manner, sitting in the...