Lincoln Allison says the torrent of popular school stories that followed Tom Brown’s Schooldays inverted its central message of Christian reform

Never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account

Not reactionary, just drawn that way

Christmas ghost stories are meditations on darkness at the darkest point of the year

Can we leave old books alone?

Although Hermione rarely names names or dishes dirt with quite the enthusiasm that her mother did, then she too has her tales to tell

In 2021, is the state of the Booker still “not serious stuff”?

Alexander Larman and Graham Stewart discuss the direction of English Literature at universities