John Carey is Merton Professor of English at Oxford University, a distinguished critic, reviewer and broadcaster, and the author of several books, including The Intellectuals and the Masses.
Ireland and the Grail
English Renaissance Studies: Presented to Dame Helen Gardner in Honour of Her Seventieth Birthday
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
Eyewitness to History
What Good Are the Arts?
Eyewitness to Science: Scientists and Writers Illuminate Natural Phenomena from Fossils to Fractals
What good are the arts?
Wording and rewording
UN protection of civil and political rights
John Donne, life, mind, and art
Vanity fair
Daphne du Maurier
Mary Shelley
Ray Bradbury
Diana Gabaldon
Jon Krakauer
Junot Diaz