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OLD STORY: OCTOBER  A mortal circle of leaves, crimson, the maple tree bent down, a diviner, knee-deep in its own dry rattle. A massacre. How could we have missed it, even...
Ardis Butterfield has been appointed International Consultant at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. This arose from her visit...
Marcel Elias was awarded the New Chaucer Society’s Prize for the Best Special Issue dealing with Late-Medieval Literature for New Directions in Medieval Postcolonialism. ...
In September, the month I found the doll among my papers, I began rereading Doris Lessing’s 1962 novel The Golden Notebook, which had been important to me years ago and had...