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William Blake, who largely influenced the Romantic Movement, has been proclaimed a genius by such writers as T.S. Eliot and William Wordsworth.

Since you’re at LSE, you’ve almost certainly tried to learn a foreign language at one point or another, so you’ll appreciate Z’s struggles as she attempts to tell the story of her year in London learning English. The book is written as Z’s (short for Zhuang Xiao Qiao, which she doesn’t believe anyone will be able to pronounce) diary, from her flight from Beijing to London and her return a year later. As the story continues her English gradually improves, an attempt at showing character development.

Tucked away at the back of the internet, behind all the helpful scroll-down menus and interactive banner ads, and amongst the endless collag­­­­­­e of millions of rotting geocities pages and threads on the forums of long forgotten bands there exists a page that I return to every second season or so, always flush with the joy of remembrance.

When I first picked up the short story collection Sunstroke, I was eager to read it.  According to the Guardian quote on the dust jacket, Tessa Hadley was “a rare and startling gem” whose writing was apparently “fantastically subtle, absorbing and insightful.” 

In The Bottomless Well, authors Huber and Mills establish two important facts that the conventional environmentalist community and much of the general public has yet to accept, much less consider. 

Johannes Gutenberg's 15th century invention of the printing press marked the beginning of a cultural revolution, a vast speeding-up and widening of the spread of ideas, information and stories. Creative literature for the masses was born, gradually replacing oral traditions of storytelling. But literature today tends to be seen as a fading art ...