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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...
August 4, 2026 ·
This essay of Cunningham offers us a concrete summary of chapter 12 and an insightful glimspe...
August 4, 2026 ·
塞繆爾·約翰遜（Samuel Johnson）是我很喜歡的一個文學人物。他的人設比他的文字來得有趣。令他名聲大噪的，是他編寫的第一本英文字典。但是我在本文想講別的——他的人設。《約翰遜傳》...
August 1, 2026 ·
In The Merchant of Venice, there are two references to music that call Shylock’s humanity into...
June 17, 2026 ·
《白鯨記》 (Moby Dick)，兩千多頁，被哈羅德·布洛姆 (Harold Bloom) 列入美國正典當中 (The American Canon)。非虛構章節，關於鯨魚歷史，詞源的章節，很...
May 2, 2026 ·
Reading about Algeria more or less clears Derrida's linguistic fog. Derrida spent his...
