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I am late on this, as I read about Hu Wenliang’s “novel without words” only today; but I live in Italy and receive the TLS very late… so others have already discussed it: from the dismissing attitude of CHINAdaily which … Continue reading →

Lear’s painting is expected to fetch between £400,000 and £600,000. Continue reading →

A new site will put online an old children’s audiobook every week in 2005 Continue reading →

An essay from the TLS on a book by Andrew Birkin Continue reading →

A performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado in Sydney prompts a long article on their importance in The Age, 29 May 2004).Peter Craven writes: Gilbert and Sullivan were the high watermark of the music of the English-speaking people in … Continue reading →

I have moved the blog from Blogger to WordPress Continue reading →

On 12 May 2004, Edward Lear’s birthday, I am at last releasing the new portal for Nonsense literature. The Lear pages do not contain anything new, updating and renewing them is my next project, but you should find lots of … Continue reading →

Literary nonsense of Sukumar Ray once again! Dungaroo, Flipfloposaurus, Billy-Hawk Calf among other animals paid a peppy visit to a book store here and regaled book lovers! They are, after all, characters from the nonsensical world created by legendary Bengali … Continue reading →

O Poetry! Let us celebrate month with anthologies of the bad, good Bloom has assembled an anthology of representative poems by English and American writers. Seen in such a light, this is a fine compendium, particularly valuable for Bloom’s important … Continue reading →

The kid in me is still alive “Youth is such a wonderful thing; it’s a shame to waste it on the young!” This aphorism by George Bernard Shaw brilliantly exposes the ludicrous side of the romantic idealization of children, so … Continue reading →