Why read The Odyssey today

Poetry and harmony in Ancient Greece

Listening to Shakespeare: dreams and reality

Greetings, partings and the magic of Shakespeare

Shakespeare and male and female bodies

Shakespeare in popular "world" culture

The modern notion of territory

Why we should read John Milton's poetry today

The 18th century novel: commercial and cultural buzz

Charles Dickens, self-made Victorian sensation

Jane Austen, an unlikely genius

The life and times of Virginia Woolf

Reading as a collective cultural experience

How we read literature to understand ourselves better

The power of poetry in our lives

Literary realism and the age of the novel

The state of contemporary novel

World literature and the international order

Literature's response to social crises

Bridging cultures and questioning the canon

Human rights seen through literature

The common language of ideas

How knowledge circulates

Indian presence in Bloomsbury and in British Literary History:

The long line of Black and Asian British literature

Writing a Caribbean London

Rediscovering Proust in Latin America

Lady Chatterley, woman and sexuality

Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex"

A brief history of Magical Realism

Exploring the natural and the supernatural in literature

Conversation about Mario Vargas Llosa

A brief history of Cuban literature

South African writing before, during and after Apartheid