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October 7, 2026 ·
‘I started Early - Took my Dog’ recounts the speaker (possibly Dickinson herself) walking a dog...
September 30, 2026 ·
Shakespeare’s use of the sea is always a fascination. Clarence, an older brother of the eponymous...
September 15, 2026 ·
It has been ingrained in us as part of our common sense that we cannot eat or drink in libraries....
September 15, 2026 ·
The labyrinthine library has Jorge Luis Borges to guide us through; Manderley has Mrs Danvers to...
September 14, 2026 ·
The Friend of Friends (or The Way It Came) is one of Henry James’s works that rarely I vibe with....
September 6, 2026 ·
As Roland Barthes crossed a zebra crossing, a laundry van knocked him flat. Disfigured, Roland...
September 3, 2026 ·
In your Shakespeare journey, a line with unusual pauses and Elizabethan words can seem daunting....
September 1, 2026 ·
Book culture may be at stake. To remain competitive, AI training companies have resorted to old...
August 30, 2026 ·
While John Shakespeare (William’s father) lived with a ‘double consciousness’, as Stephen...
August 29, 2026 ·
The world is too much with us The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and...
August 27, 2026 ·
Hopefully my reading notes may help in your Shakespeare journey. ~ The Portrait of Mr W. H....
August 26, 2026 ·
In Timon of Athens, much attention has given to Timon, the eponymous exile; and yet the exile...
August 22, 2026 ·
I once made an Instagram reel on this city, Sophronia (https://www.instagram.com/p/DU-3kDUExhJ/...
August 22, 2026 ·
Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities tells of the intellectual exchange between Marco Polo and Kublai...
August 20, 2026 ·
The poem starts with an unnamed ‘I’ lying dead for ‘Beauty’ in ‘the Tomb’ while the ‘One who died...
August 19, 2026 ·
This poem juxtaposes predatory violence and pastoral beauty without arousing unease. The bird in...
August 19, 2026 ·
When Helen Vendler suggests that in this poem Dickinson ‘pose[s] the question of the starvation...
August 18, 2026 ·
If Rachel Carson has written a secular scientific Genesis with reverence, it seems to me the...
August 16, 2026 ·
Stumbling upon Edward Said’s Reflection on Exile and Other Essays, I intended to read the...
August 16, 2026 ·
What did William Shakespeare have for breakfast, lunch, and supper? This question depends on...
