Monday Apr 1st, 2013

Shakespeare’s fools

“The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.”
Sunday Mar 31st, 2013

The death of Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë, the last surviving Brontë child, died on 31 March 1855.
Tuesday Mar 26th, 2013

The Blaines of Lake Geneva

An excerpt from This Side of Paradise in honor of the anniversary its publication.
Tuesday Mar 26th, 2013

Whitman today

Walt Whitman died 121 years ago today.
Sunday
Mar 24th, 2013

Happy Birthday, Topsy

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Thursday
Mar 21st, 2013

Gimme Shelter: De Quincey on Drugs

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Monday
Mar 18th, 2013

Virginia Woolf on Laurence Sterne

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Thursday
Mar 7th, 2013

Controlling the fable-makers

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Thursday
Feb 28th, 2013

Metre and alliteration in The Kalevala

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Tuesday
Feb 26th, 2013

Ford Madox Ford and unfilmable Modernism

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Sunday
Feb 24th, 2013

Levin’s proposal

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Thursday
Feb 21st, 2013

De Quincey’s wicked book

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Tuesday
Feb 12th, 2013

Anna Karenina’s happiness

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Thursday
Feb 7th, 2013

His name was George F. Babbitt.

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Saturday
Feb 2nd, 2013

James Joyce and birthdays

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