Non-fiction

Over the last few years, R J Dent has written and published essays on a variety of literary and cultural topics. Some of these essays are now available here.

 

The Life, Death and Afterlife of Richard Bachman.

JG Ballard and the fiction of enclosed space.

Violence and exquisite beauty - the aesthetics of Roy Campbell.

'You who magically make supple the old bones of the after-hours drunkard trampled by the horses' - an essay on translating.

A Collaboration of Unlike Minds: Robert Graves' and William Blake's The Tiger.