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Lawrence’s Hampstead: A Walking Tour
Lawrence’s Bloomsbury: Two Walking Tours
‘The Merry-Go-Round’ and ‘The Night of the Zeppelins’
London in D.H. Lawrence’s Words
Climbing Down the Alpine Pisgah: Lawrence and the Alps
The Alps in D.H. Lawrence’s Thought and Theology
Paint, Pain, and Fiction: Beryl Bainbridge’s ‘Master Georgie’ and Michael Frayn’s ‘Headlong’
Henry James and Ivan Turgenev: Cosmopolitanism and Croquet
What is ‘Comparative’ Literature?
The Russian Soul Englished
Commentaries on Shakespeare’s Sonnets 88-93
‘The Mill on the Floss’ in the Nineteen-Seventies
The Unconscious Good Life in ‘Women in Love’ and ‘Anna Karenina’
Scapegoating, Double-Plotting, and the Justice of ‘Anna Karenina’
War and Peace in Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement’
Why does Daniel Deronda’s Mother live in Russia?
‘Daniel Deronda’ as Tragi-Comedy
Books
D.H. Lawrence and London: A special edition of the Journal of D.H. Lawrence Studies (2019)
Fictions of Torture (long-term project)
‘The Reception of George Eliot in Europe’
‘The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare’
Lectures
Lawrence, Darwin and Genre
How is Studying English Transformational?
Are DH Lawrence’s ‘Pansies’ Poetry?
D.H. Lawrence and Ivan Karamazov’s Grand Inquisitor’s Christ
Screening ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ in 2015
Russia in Twenty-First Century Fiction
Anglo-German Relations and D.H. Lawrence’s ‘All of Us’
Howard Jacobson and Anti-Semitism
The Torture Debate and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
Reviews
Review of ‘Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel’
Review of ‘The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence’ by James Moran
Review of the Belknap Press ‘Annotated Wuthering Heights’
LAWRENCE: Scandalous! Censored! Banned!
D.H. Lawrence Homo Religiosus
Rosa Newmarch: Russophile and Poet
Lawrence’s ‘Women in Love’ on the Small Screen
Modernism in our Time: Review of Roger Griffin’s ‘Fascism and Modernism’
Podcasts
NCH
Why Study English?
Victorians All Around Us
Approaching the Victorians
The Narrator Part 2
The Narrator Part 1
Sex in Victorian Literature
Samuel Beckett’s ‘Breath’
Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration’
Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement’
Julian Barnes’s ‘A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters’
Sebastian Faulks’s ‘A Week in December’
A.D. Miller’s ‘Snowdrops’
Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 88’
Reading
Chapters
Unreliable Narrators
OXFORD
What is ‘Comparative Literature’?
Multiple Plotting
Chapters: Why Writers Have Them, and How To Read Them
Unreliable Narrators
D.H. Lawrence 7: Reception History
D.H. Lawrence 6: Birds, Beasts and Children
D.H. Lawrence 5: The Alps
D.H. Lawrence 4: The World at Large
D.H. Lawrence 3: Christianity
D.H. Lawrence 2: Humour
D.H. Lawrence 1: Consciousness
George Eliot Introduction – A Very Large Brain
George Eliot 3: Reception History
George Eliot 2: Genre and Justice
George Eliot 1: Intellect and Consciousness
Realism
Walcott and Naipaul: History and Myth
Blog
Media
World War II and Memory
Loving Fictions: Why Do We Fall in Love with Fictional Characters?
Carnivore: Dorian Gray Meets Trainspotting
Anglo-Greek Arcadia and Me
Is there a distortion in the perception of Russian literature in the English-speaking cultures?
Five Books by D.H. Lawrence
Teffi from Odessa to Paris
An Orgy of Revenge in a Man’s World
Marriage a la Mode
Reader, I married him
The Unintended Consequences of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’
On Script Consulting for BBC1’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Review of Nabokov’s Letters to His Wife
D.H. Lawrencians in Gargnano 2014
Why to – and how to – read Anna Karenina today
Review of ‘Behind the Mask: the Life of Vita Sackville-West’ by Matthew Dennison
Review of ‘Subtly Worded’ by Teffi
Review of ‘The Kreutzer Sonata Variations’, trans. and ed. Michael R. Katz
Review of ‘The Dog’ by Joseph O’Neill
Review of Rosamund Bartlett’s translation of ‘Anna Karenina’
Review of CUP’s DH Lawrence Poems, and Richard Owen’s Lady Chatterley’s Villa
‘Broad range of GCSE literature choices are essential for a full education’
Mountains of the Mind: How Russian Writers Saw the Caucasus
Summits and Lovers: Retracing the Footsteps of DH Lawrence in the Alps
Broadcasting
BBC 1 Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 2015
Journey Without Shame
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‘Handbagged’ by Moira Buffini
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Archive
Loveless
February 25, 2018
‘And What Did You Do in the War, Vati?’ My German Family’s Second World War
January 4, 2018
The Death of Stalin
December 14, 2017
Reflections on the Death of an Aunt
November 10, 2017
In Memoriam Derek Walcott Part II: an Interview with Poet Jaya Savige
October 3, 2017
In Memoriam Derek Walcott Part I: A Reminiscence of Meeting Him in 2001
October 3, 2017
A Journey through China and Malaysia
September 13, 2017
Lipstick on Your Collar: My Fascination for the Nineteen-Fifties
August 20, 2017
Where Anti-Trumpism is Getting it Wrong; or, My Enemy’s Enemy is Not Above Reproach; or, Ends Do Not Justify Means
August 18, 2017
Fakespeare makes good, apart from on Leveson: King Charles III
May 28, 2017
Three Girls: A Magnificent Response to the Rochdale Child Abuse Ring
May 26, 2017
What is Good Sex Writing?
February 6, 2017
Fear on Camera: Papa Doc’s Haiti
January 26, 2017
Whistlejacket Forever
December 19, 2016
Moscow: History of a Symbol
December 7, 2016
Dog-Walking With the Dead
October 16, 2016
Uncustomisable Orthodoxy
October 13, 2016
The Euro-Debate’s Missing Factor: the USA
June 1, 2016
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
May 27, 2016
Rough Justice
May 16, 2016
Corfus of the Mind
May 12, 2016
Of Man and Dogs
May 9, 2016
Some Things That Are True of My Dad
March 30, 2016
Vasilii Perov and other Household Names we’ve never heard of
March 28, 2016
Geoff Colman on Naturalistic Acting
March 27, 2016
On Being at Home on Easter Morning
March 27, 2016
Camille: And The Lost Diaries of Samuel Pepys
February 29, 2016
Stop Trident Demonstration
February 28, 2016
The Master Builder
February 28, 2016
SPECTRE
February 28, 2016
Two Ways of Seeing Things
February 16, 2016
An Englishly-sunny War and Peace
February 16, 2016
Revisiting the Beaumont Road Estate one Decade on: ‘Re:Home’ at The Yard Theatre
February 12, 2016
Opportunity Missed at Tottenham Court Road Station; Capitalist Sublime at Centre Point
February 11, 2016
Husbands and Sons: or, how D.H. Lawrence gets mashed-up in the National Theatre’s Mine But Emerges Alive and Kicking
February 8, 2016
Ten Things that I have Learned about Dog-Owning – and Listicles
February 3, 2016
Cambridge Revisited
October 9, 2015
Whataboutism in the Gulag
October 2, 2015
Lines Written on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye
July 16, 2015
Broadside Against Ageism
June 22, 2015
The Prosecutor’s ‘Lady Chatterley’
June 20, 2015
The Saracen’s Head at Southwell
May 13, 2015
On Friendship
March 27, 2015
Howard Jacobson in Conversation
March 12, 2015
Leveson Now – or at the latest in a year’s time…
March 1, 2015
Twelfth Week Sextet
March 1, 2015
A View from the Bridge
February 28, 2015
Banya No. 1
February 20, 2015
The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
December 10, 2014
Lady Ottoline Morrell
December 3, 2014
D.H. Lawrence and Women
September 3, 2014
Helen Bamber
August 23, 2014
‘Twelfth Night’ at New College of the Humanities
June 29, 2014
Deconstructing Russophobia
June 6, 2014
Victoriana in London 2013-14
February 25, 2014
Three Plays at New College of the Humanities 2013-14
January 13, 2014
Shunga in the City
January 9, 2014
‘Handbagged’ by Moira Buffini
October 21, 2013
An Evening of Greek Culture
September 30, 2013
Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum
August 29, 2013
The American Plan
August 9, 2013
‘Chimerica’ by Lucy Kirkwood
August 8, 2013
Skyfall
December 10, 2012
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