Poet, literary critic and professor of English at Warwick University known for his work on TS Eliot, HG Wells and Gerard Manley Hopkins
October 2014
Park Honan obituary
Academic best known for his biographies of William Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Robert Browning
June 2014
The secret of Nabokov's sexual style
Lolita was a taboo-breaker, but Nabokov always denied it was pornographic. David Lodge on how poetry and humour come together in his writing about sex
December 2012
Rereading
David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope's The Fixed Period is set in 1980 and centres on a plan for compulsory euthanasia for those aged 67-68. David Lodge on an unusual, absorbing novel that has been unfairly overlooked
October 2012
Twitter fiction: 21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels
We challenged well-known writers – from Ian Rankin and Helen Fielding to Jeffrey Archer and Jilly Cooper – to come up with a story of up to 140 characters. This is their stab at Twitter fiction
