This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the scholars Janet Todd and Derek Hughes to revisit the life and work of Restoration England’s first woman of letters, the playwright Aphra Behn, who “seems formed for our noisy, sex-obsessed times”; the translator, poet and critic Sasha Dugdale considers Russian protest poetry and the rise of Galina Rymbu; plus, literary festivals rebooted.
‘The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn: Volume IV: Plays, 1682–1696’, edited by Rachel Adcock, et al
‘F Letter: New Russian feminist poetry’, edited by Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky and Ainsley Morse; translated by Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse, Alex Karsavin, Helena Kernan, Kit Eginton, Valzhyna Mort and Kevin M. F. Platt
‘Life In Space’ by Galina Rymbu; translated by Joan Brooks
Valzhyna Mort’s translation of the poem ’Summer’, read by Sasha Dugdale, also appears at - www.granta.com/summer-gates-of-the-body
‘The Scar We Know’, a bi-lingual edition of Lida Yusupova's poetry with introductions by Oksana Vasyakina and Ainsley Morse, has just been published by Cicada Books
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‘But Where’s the Poetry?!’
D. H. Lawrence in Flames
Jane Austen and Abolition
Angela Thirkell’s Relentless Self-Belief
Pirandello’s Controlled Chaos
Violence Upon the Roads
Underground and on the Run
Getting Shakespeare’s Measure
Philip Roth, For Better, For Worse, Forever?
Dreams of America
Myth-busting, awkwardness, pure Marvellousness
Vivian Gornick’s Time
Avoidance and absurdity
Ishiguro’s AI and Grendel’s Mother
Nostalgia, Outsiders and "Rubber Tramps"
Weapons, Grouse and Red Herrings
Tentatively Pressing
The Barbara Comyns revival
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