MLA: Brave new words
Tim Cornwell finds out how Lynne Cheney and her 'political potboiler' fit into MLA history The rightwing's favourite cultural hawk is back. Under president Ronald Reagan, Lynne Cheney carried the...
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MLA: Behind bars, then out in the cold
Malawian poet Jack Mapanje is writing his account of the three and a half years in prison that blighted a promising career. Chris Bunting met him in York When Jack Mapanje was arrested by the...
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MLA: apartheid's blind spot - the albino terrorist
Breyten Breytenbach's prison narrative The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist provides an interesting response to life in prison. Breytenbach, one of South Africa's best-known Afrikaner poets,...
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MLA: voices of the incarcerated demanding to be heard
The world has been watching (and perhaps smirking) at the election problems of the nation sometimes considered the "leader of the free world". Much less media attention has focused on the roughly 4...
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MLA: being true to the Russian master
Richard Pevear explains why the first new translation into English in 40 years of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was necessary Why is there a need for a new translation of Anna Karenina ? The version by...
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MLA: putting the stud back into gender studies
Portraying themselves as victims, men are reasserting their cultural dominance, says Sally Robinson There's a scene in David Fincher's film Fight Club where the narrator faces a Gucci underwear ad...
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MLA: reading more than words
The issues involved in translation require and foster critical and associative thinking, heightened reading skills, and an increased interest in and understanding of other cultures. All too often,...
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MLA: the ultimate in fantasy novels
The internet has created a new literary genre in Japan but some of its features have much in common with the classics. Toru Kiuchi examines a medium where anything goes When the 18th-century English...
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MLA: criminals, perverts and Snoopy
The MLA's conference has been called a 'passion of solemnity', but with subjects ranging from Greek musicals to jailed writers, you are bound to find something to your taste, says Tim Cornwell...
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TV & radio guide - Friday
In Search of the Black Madonna (11.00 am R4). Bonnie Greer wonders about the power of "Black Madonna" icons in Europe from medieval times on. First of two programmes. Culture Fix (11.30 am BBC...
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Comrades try to get Prudence to wear more red
Socialism has had setbacks in the 25 years since young leftwinger Gordon Brown edited The Red Paper on Scotland . Bob Tait joined a gathering to discuss the way forward. It was, on the face of it, an...
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I'd like one doner kebab and a PhD to takeaway
You can call a room above a kebab shop a university and make millions, but such degree mills harm UK higher education, says Matthew Chapman. It is a little known fact that Green Lanes in a quiet...
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Higher Channels
Metamorpheus (Sunday 8.15 BBC2) is a rarity that’s welcome for more than one reason. Firstly, it’s concerned with Greek mythology, a subject that doesn’t surface much on television these days outside...
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Sons of soil left to wither on the vine
Agriculture in Britain has sunk to a nadir last seen during the Great Depression. Farmers were once the bedrock of British society and a powerful voice in the land, but who now cares what becomes of...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Researchers at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University have reported that they have altered the flow of electricity through tiny carbon nanotubes by...