Explore the diverse career paths for English Literature graduates, from education and publishing to media and creative writing.

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

For the first time, English-language readers can engage with the work of Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal, a distinctive voice among South Africa’s younger generation of Afrikaans poets.

The modernist painter whose brush strokes echo the beats of human deprivation, is the greatest living Indian artist.

Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...

It’s a sweltering day – muggy and drizzly – as my taxi crawls through a patchwork of east London council estates. When we ...

The Shawshank Redemption proclaims a profound message of hope that obviously resonates deeply with so many people today.

OFTEN billed as a polymath, Alasdair Gray was a writer and artist who illustrated his own books, prompting us to ponitificate ...

In Gaza, I lost friends to Israeli bombs and saw their futures stolen before they could begin. I write their names to ...

Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones), the Maoist revolutionary who was called “the primary theorist of the Black Arts Movement ...

"When we were young, he encouraged us to read by giving us required readings," his son, Antonio "Tonet" Jose, recently shared ...

OFTEN billed as a polymath, Alasdair Gray was a writer and artist who illustrated his own books, prompting us to ponitificate that, just as ...