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The London Library
Once a month or so when I was a small boy, my father and I would spend a Saturday morning together in the St. James’s area of London, later meeting my mother and sister for lunch at a restaurant close...
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A Battle for Souls, and Other News
“But ultimately, I decided that the committees overseeing these sorts of things (editorial, sales, marketing) would never approve this. ‘The title is hard to read,’ they would complain. ‘The book is...
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Secret Erotica, Jane Austen, and Other News
Photo Credit Sean Malone A tribute to the Blackwing 602, the favored pencil of many a writer, including Nabokov. The saga of the Jane Austen ring continues! Now, an anonymous donor has given £100,000...
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Snail’s Pace
I’m told foxes are all the rage right now. Specifically, that “foxes are the new owls.” Owls, of course, were the new squirrels, and I forget what preceded that, but it all started with birds. And...
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Actual Size
The miniature book The Infant’s Library. Part of the British Library’s current exhibition “Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain.”
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The Other Yellow Pages
Pause Play Play Prev | Next Last week, the British Library launched Discovering Literature, an online collection of more than 1,200 items from the Romantic and Victorian periods, all of it meant to...
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Over There
R. Ferro, Cupidity – Greed Lately I’ve been listening to the excellent BBC documentary World War I, which you can download and then listen to, incongruously, while waiting on line at the grocery store....
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Getting at the Gothic, and Other News
From Matthew Lewis’s Tales of Terror, published 1808. In France, 40 percent of TV programming comes from America, which means dubbing is a major industry, and voice-over actors have enough work to...
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Staff Picks: Passion, Portals, and Premature Presents
T. S. Eliot’s “The Cultivation of Christmas Trees” I’ve spent a lot of time guddling around the Daily archive of late. There are many joys attendant to this, not least the expansion of that tragic...
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