Dennis Marks

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John Banville

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Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes was born in 1915. A French literary theorist, philosopher...

John Berger

Storyteller, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing (1972), the Booker Prize winning novel G (1972), Here is Where We Meet (2005) and, most recently, From A to X (2008). He lives in a small village community in France.

Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 and grew up in Austria. He is increasingly regarded as the major European writer of his generation. The five segments of his memoir were published in one volume, Gathering Evidence, in 1985. Thomas Bernhard died in 1989.

Bernhard received several literary awards, including Österreichische Staatspreis für Literatur (1967), the Anton-Wildgans-Preis der Österreichischen Indistrie (1967), the Georg-Büchner-Preis (1970), the Franz-Theodor-Csokor-Preis (1972). "I always was a free person, I receive no stipend and I write my books in a completely natural way, according to my lifestyle, which is guaranteed different from all those people's," Bernhard said in an interview.

Discover more at Thomasbernhard.org.

Stephen Mitchelmore reflects on Thomas Bernhard's work on the tenth anniversary of the writer's death.

In an interview from 1986, the late Austrian author Thomas Bernhard discusses the musicality of language, the eroticism of old men and the incurability of stupidity

Joe Brainard

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Hubert Butler

Hubert Marshal Butler (2 October 1900 – 5 January 1991) was an Irish essayist who wrote on a wide-range of topics, from local history and archaeology to the political and religious affairs of eastern Europe before and during World War II.

Hal Foster

Hal Foster is Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. He has written Design and Crime (2002), Prosthetic Gods (2004) and, more recently, The Art-Architecture Complex (2011). A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he writes regularly for October (which he co-edits), Artforum, and The London Review of Books.

Susan Greenfield

Baroness Greenfield has been Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology since 1996 at Oxford where she continues to head a multi-disciplinary research group. She is also Director of the Institute for the Future of the Mind. She was awarded a CBE in 2000 and granted a non-political Life Peerage in 2001.

Susan Greenfield has written a number of books disseminating science to academic as well as non-academic sectors, exploring topics including the basis of consciousness and human nature. Her latest book, ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century, is an exploration of what it means to be human in a world of rapid change and, by drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience, looks at how we can promote our own individuality.

Lavinia Greenlaw

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