literature

Lauren Child – best-selling children’s author and creator of Clarice Bean, Charlie and Lola, and now Ruby Redfort – will be in conversation with...

A determination to put poetry centre stage in schools and universities is the motivation behind the Caribbean Poetry Project. A conference in...

The 12th-century German “Chronicle of the Emperors” (Kaiserchronik) – widely regarded by scholars as one of the most important literary works of the...

When Cambridge academic and writer Dr Robert Macfarlane was asked to write a libretto for a performance celebrating the extraordinary landscape of...

Thirty years after it ended, the Falklands/Malvinas War still casts a long shadow over the lives of many Argentinians. A conference marking the...

“Hell is other people,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre. His rival on the stage of occupied and post-war Paris was Albert Camus (“I am the world”). The two...

An evening at Lucy Cavendish College next Monday will bring together speakers and musicians from Cambridge and beyond to look at the ways in which...

Is democracy up to our 21st-century problems? Will the UK ever sort out its relationship with Europe? Is tragedy the perfect form for the modern...