Clair Wills is King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. Her latest book is Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets (Penguin, 2024).

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The photographs worth a thousand words, even if those words are by Annie Ernaux

Juxtaposing the Nobel Prize-winner’s writing with images of daily life shows that images can be read as well as looked at

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The Masterpiece podcast: episode three

This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites

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