The Decline and Fall of the Campus Novel December 02, 2024
Can it really be half a century since the publication of Porterhouse Blue? Tom Sharpe’s classic, scabrous satire on Oxbridge life was a novel so trenchant that it moulded – and arguably redefined – how the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, those ...
This Is Not Your Typical Campus Novel August 07, 2024
In today’s United States, at least in liberal and leftist circles, certain aspects of identity are understood to be a matter of choice—as well as a battleground for freedom. I don’t live in America anymore, but over the course of the decade I spent t...