“Jangling caterwauls”: Muriel Spark and the scrambler telephone
Beatriz Lopez explores Spark’s wartime use of a secure telephone and considers the device’s later disturbing reappearance in her novel The Hothouse…
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Discarding history for mythology: Muriel Spark’s mythologizers
Beatriz Lopez explores how Muriel Spark’s foremost mythologizers employ WWII myth-making techniques to impose their delusional understandings of the world on…
‘L’Entente Cordiale’: D-Day and the literary magazine
Documents of the month: FO 898/521 / FO 898/522 Guy Woodward As many recollections aired this week have testified, the…
