Literary criticism could be one of our best tools for understanding the human condition: We literary scholars have mostly failed to generate surer and firmer knowledge about the things we study. While most other fields gradually accumulate new and durable understanding about the world, the great minds of literary studies have, over the past few decades, chiefly produced theories and speculation with little relevance to anyone but the scholars themselves. [Boston Globe]
‘Nobel Prize was a bloody disaster’: Lessing tells how winning award stopped her writing: The Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has said that winning the award was a “bloody disaster” for her, and fears she will never write again. [Independent]
Johnny Depp’s brother to publish debut novel: Daniel P Depp, the half brother of actor Johnny Depp, is to publish a debut novel set in Hollywood. [Telegraph]
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