Swansea University announces ‘decolonised’ English course
In tune with calls to study fewer dead white males, university announces new module focused on ‘hyper-contemporary’ International Dylan Thomas prize
Book clinic: what’s likely to impress an English literature admissions tutor?
Philip Hensher suggests some great novelists, from GK Chesterton to VS Naipaul, who aren’t on the curriculum
John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing review – oddball or visionary?
The influential critic, social reformer and troubled genius profoundly changed British culture. In his 200th anniversary year, can this exhibition help us see him clearly?
‘Pretty aint it … Mrs Yonge said so’: the changing face of teaching poetry
An exhibition in Cambridge shows how poems have been taught to GCSE students down the decades – with pupils’ own textbook annotations included
Stonewall defends ‘vital’ LGBT children’s books after spate of ban attempts
In the last week, separate moves in Canada and the US threatened to restrict young readers’ access to LGBT-themed illustrated stories
The Guardian view on academic freedom: the right to be very wrong
Editorial: Sometimes it takes a true believer to make clear the absurdities of a faith. An Oxford professor’s view on sexuality discredit his church’s doctrine
The vandals destroying libraries should have the book thrown at them
A great public service is being run down by a state that prefers cost-cutting to culture
David Kynaston: ‘There is an anti-privilege mood. It is hard to see private schools escaping unscathed’
The social historian on why he believes Britain may finally tackle the inequality perpetuated by independent education
Casey Gerald: ‘Trump may be the most American president we’ve ever had’
From a traumatic childhood in Dallas to Yale, Harvard, Wall Street and beyond, the businessman and author exemplifies the American dream – the very myth his new book sets out to dismantle
Peter Jarvis obituary
Other lives: Emeritus professor of continuing education at the University of Surrey
Valerie Eaton Griffith obituary
Founder of a voluntary scheme that established a path to recovery for stroke patients
How we made Horrible Histories
‘If someone getting wee poured over them helps people learn some facts, we’re doing our job right’
Humiliation, homoeroticism and animal cruelty: inside the frathouse
Photographer Andrew Moisey uncovered ritual hazing, extreme drunkenness and toxic masculinity on one college campus – from men destined to be America’s future leaders
P is for pterodactyl, T is for tsunami: the ‘worst alphabet book’ becomes a bestseller
A picture book dedicated to English’s strangest quirks has made the New York Times bestseller list with the publisher scrambling to reprint. How did the rapper behind it dream it up?
Dear Damian Hinds, please stop wrecking poetry for children
Children are being taught that there are right and wrong answers in poems