Desire: A Memoir by Jonathan Dollimore

As a quaking fifteen-year old introvert I remember the first time I read James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and seeing in Stephen Dedalus the same quaking anxieties as a schoolboy I too was experiencing. My love affair with reading was accelerated, and a new affair with writing was precipitated …

Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

I wanted to write this one now, given what is coming... Jonathan Dollimore. I was fortunate to be taught by him during my literature degree. Unpredictable, sparky, intelligent. He once burst into song mid-lecture, for the sole reason it was an orally-assessed term: "And now you can all orally assess me" he declared prior to …