Could Bram Stoker’s Dracula be a personification of sleep disorders?

The vampire’s victims suffered from various types of sleep disorders – sleepwalking, hallucinations, sleep paralysis, and more.

Alice Vernon, The Conversation

· Nov 04, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Four times Shakespeare has inspired stories about robots and Artificial Intelligence

Science fiction has proposed that the Bard of Avon was not a human but a klingon.

Sarah Annes Brown, The Conversation

· Jan 20, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Three things historical literature can teach us about the climate crisis

Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ and Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’, among others, tell us about our historical view of nature.

David Higgins, The Conversation

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Tess Somervell, The Conversation

· Feb 14, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘The Sheik’: 100 years on, the desert romance is a gift that keeps on giving to genre novelists

Panned as rubbish when it was published in 1919, ‘The Sheik’ spawned a legendary movie and hundreds of desert romances, despite its questionable central theme.

Ellen Turner, The Conversation

· Feb 25, 2019 · 05:30 pm

William Faulkner wrote this novel after the markets crash of 1929. No wonder it talks of modern ills

‘As I Lay Dying’ remains one of the most perplexing novels of the modernist canon.

Sarah Gleeson-White, The Conversation

· Jul 18, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Watch: Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings come to life in film on the great artist

Actors transform themselves into the painter’s works in the animated movie ‘Loving Vincent’.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 28, 2017 · 08:15 am

The tale of the self-renewing virgin shows how little seems to have changed since the Mahabharata

Intricate issues of kinship, legitimacy, caste and gender justice that appear in the epic continue to rock us today.

Mrinal Pande

· May 04, 2016 · 05:30 pm

How to write a children’s classic: the Gruffalo formula

Julia Donaldson's tale of brains and brawn may only be 16 years old, but like Harry Potter it has joined the ranks of the all-time greats.

Matthew Creasy, The Conversation

· Sep 01, 2015 · 08:30 am

A colourful web series revives the magic of classic Hindi nursery rhymes

‘Ghotu Motu Ki Toli’ introduces children growing on ‘Johnny, Johnny’ to the delights of ‘Upar chanda gol gol’.

Mayank Jain

· Dec 19, 2014 · 12:30 pm

'Eena Meena Deeka' finds new life as an indie anthem for the Indian diaspora

Indo-American bands like Goldspot and Rupa and the April Fishes have turned the song from 1957 into cult hit.

Amit Gurbaxani

· Dec 13, 2014 · 06:07 pm