Thomas Hardy
The importance of using the right language | Letters
Letters: Kevin Harper on the need to use plain English, and Peter Branston on new language and Thomas Hardy
Letters
06, Oct, 2021 @4:59 PM
‘You think wrong!’: top 10 rants in literature
Some distrust kvetching in print, but writers from Shakespeare to Valerie Solanas show there’s nothing wrong with constructive – and even destructive – criticism
Lucy Ellmann
25, Aug, 2021 @11:00 AM
A bridge too far for the renaming game? | Brief letters
Brief letters: Teachers and coronavirus | Honours and Spike Milligan | Art quiz | World leaders | Severn Bridge
Letters
01, Jan, 2021 @5:26 PM
The return of Thomas Hardy's favourite haunt, the King's Arms, Dorchester – review
This newly-restored 16th-century hotel and inn, immortalised by the novelist, had a rocky start due to the pandemic. But, unlike most of his stories, there is hope of a happy ending
Lesley Gillilan
03, Dec, 2020 @12:40 PM
Top 10 books about consent
From Thomas Hardy to Kristen Roupenian, literature offers a changing map of the treacherous terrain of sexual relationships
Mia Levitin
25, Nov, 2020 @10:36 AM
David Nicholls: 'Gifting books feels like changing the music at someone else’s party'
The author and screenwriter on being inspired by Tess of the D’Urbervilles, feeling gloomy over Moomins and rereading Franny and Zooey
David Nicholls
10, Aug, 2020 @11:00 AM
Look, don't touch: what great literature can teach us about love with no contact
With our increased physical distance from each other, novels about forbidden touch and longing are more seductive than ever
Joanna Briscoe
22, May, 2020 @10:00 AM
Sally Rooney: 'I want the next thing I do to be the best thing I’ve ever done'
The Normal People author on the joy of Jeeves and the influence of JD Salinger’s Franny and Zooey
Sally Rooney
17, Apr, 2020 @9:00 AM
Discovery of letters shines light on Thomas Hardy's second marriage
Author’s second wife, Florence Dugdale, tells of celebrity pressures, and joy at living with ‘one of the kindest men in the world’
Steven Morris
01, Apr, 2020 @11:01 PM
Keep spreading the marmalade thickly | Brief letters
Brief letters: Marmalade| Glow-worms | Brexit | Toilet roll shortages
Letters
27, Mar, 2020 @5:50 PM
Genius and Ink by Virginia Woolf review – essays on ‘how to read’
How did the young critic Virginia Woolf become the famous novelist? This book provides an answer
Aida Edemariam
21, Dec, 2019 @7:30 AM
Jude review – Hardy's hero becomes a Syrian refugee in Howard Brenton's reworking
Brenton’s ambitious but muddled new drama follows a gifted young Syrian woman who attracts the attentions of an Oxford classicist, Euripides and MI5
Michael Billington
05, May, 2019 @10:26 AM
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