The category of climate fiction, or cli-fi, arose in this millennium, but several older works of fiction have tackled the subject of climate change and its effects. The group’s members see themselves as the ecological equivalent of the army of soldiers in the play, who, carrying branches from Birnam Wood as camouflage, storm Macbeth’s castle. Early in the book, the …
Published : Jul 13, 2023 11:00 IST - 6 MINS READ The eye-catching title of Eleanor Catton’s new novel, Birnam Wood, refers to a scene in Shakespeare’s bloodiest play, a simple and powerful scene. Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton Granta, 2023 Pages: 432 Price: Rs.799 In naming their collective Birnam Wood, the activists in Catton’s novel adopt the misdirection and subversion …
The Victorians in charge of evaluating corpse status – men, all men, of course – decreed that George Eliot was not to be buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, citing her “notorious antagonism to Christian practice in regard to marriage”. open image in gallery Sebastian Barry’s ‘Old God’s Time’, which reflects on family, crime, war and love, is both …
