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    -WIKIPEDIA:William Golding
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    -PODCAST: Why Lord of the Flies Still Disturbs Us (The Book Club, Sep 8, 2026
    -BOOKNOTES:Book Notes: Lord of the Flies : The novel that gave our presenters nightmares (Rhiannon Evans, Sep 12, 2026, The Book Club)
    -ESSAY: ‘Lord of the Flies’ Comes to Television for the First Time in a New Miniseries. In the 1950s, the Now-Famous Novel Almost Never Got Published: Publishers rejected the original manuscript for “Lord of the Flies” many times, yet the story still sparks a buzz today. Author William Golding later won the Nobel Prize in Literature (Ryley Graham, May 6, 2026, Smithsonian)
    -ESSAY: Lord of the Flies is wrong about humanity: We aren’t naturally cruel Lord of the Flies is wrong about humanity (Terry Eagleton, Feb 28 2026, UnHerd)
    -ESSAY: William Golding’s Island of Savagery: The Second World War disrupted narratives of mankind’s ‘progress’, but – as William Golding captured so vividly in Lord of the Flies – human history has always been a balancing act between enlightenment and calamity. (Alexander Lee, 12 December 2025, History Today)
    -ESSAY: William Golding and the curse of the dream: We must resist the lure of utopianism (Samuel Mace, 3/14/23, The Critic)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Re-Evaluating ‘Lord Of The Flies’ (Peter Wells, 6/14/21, 3 Quarks)
    -ESSAY: Lord of the Flies at 70: how a classic was reimagined as a graphic novel: Dutch illustrator Aimée de Jongh talks about turning William Golding’s haunting novel into a visual artwork, while the author’s daughter and others reflect on its evolving message of humanity (Rachel Cooke, 25 Aug 2024, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: William Golding: The Faber Letters review – the making of a masterpiece: Correspondence between the Lord of the Flies author and his editor reveals one of the great literary collaborations of the age (Blake Morrison, Mon 15 Dec 2025, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of William Golding’s Rites of Passage (Annie Proulx, Lit Hub)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Mind and Matter: Four Novels by William Golding: The novels that followed ‘Lord of the Flies’ explored the strange states human consciousness can create. (Elizabeth Lowry, July 22, 2026, Wall Street Journal)
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    -ESSAY: The Real Lord of the Flies Story Netflix Isn't Telling: The famous novel portrays kids as savages when left to their own devices. But is that actually true? (Lenore Skenazy, 5.11.2026, reason)
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