During our 125th anniversary year, we are featuring friends of LUP through celebrations and conversations about LUP and the publishing industry more widely. For this next piece, we have Christabel Scaife, Senior Commissioning Editor at LUP, in conversation with Sherryl Vint, Professor of Science Fiction Media Studies at the University of California Riverside, founding journal co-editor, … Continue reading
On the Art of Criticism
In this blog post, author of 'The Work of the Living' Patrick Thomas Henry explores the notion that criticism should not be seen as separate from creative work, advocating for the idea that criticism itself can be a form of artistic expression, enriched by creativity and rhetorical skill, drawing on examples from literary figures and personal experiences.
T. S. Eliot’s Black Arts Legacy: Robert Hayden, the Middle Passage, and The Waste Land
To celebrate the release of the latest issue of The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual (Volume 6), we are showcasing an article by Anita Patterson titled 'T. S. Eliot’s Black Arts Legacy: Robert Hayden, the Middle Passage, and The Waste Land' which is featured in Volume 6 of The Annual.
Why Bother with H G Wells in the Twenty-First Century?
Author Bill Cooke examines some of the most popular claims about H G Wells's views on fascism, utopia, and science, viewing Wells as a public intellectual and revealing how he foresaw our current era of ecological disaster.
Pride Month 2024 Reading List
This Pride Month, we've put together a selection of books and journal articles which can help us learn about queerness and queer representation - from Trans-ing the enlightenment to new translations of classic Latin American Literature.