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Carthage ruins
August 31, 2020

Whatever happened to the Punics?

Good and bad, light and dark, mind and matter, yin and yang, male and female, them and us, Celtic...

by Kit Ward
Hitchcock-Strangers-on-a-Train
August 21, 2020

The almost incredible

Anyone who admires Patricia Highsmith’s fiction will forgive her this fondness for the ‘almost incredible’ and will find these...

by Kit Ward
Walt Disney and Wernher von Braun
July 28, 2020

Wernher and Walt

Anybody interested in the history of space exploration will be familiar with the name of Wernher Von Braun and...

by Kit Ward
The Library of Babel - Érik Desmazières
June 29, 2020

Preserving the libraries

Somewhere along the byways of my adolescent reading I picked up the notion that the Library of Alexandria, the...

by Kit Ward
Charles Baudelaire
June 18, 2020

Portraits in words

A couple of novels I read recently got me thinking about character descriptions. From my own reading, admittedly a...

by Kit Ward
May 24, 2020

Lost movies

In his history of France in the 1930s, The Hollow Years, Eugen Weber mentions, almost in passing, 'Of two...

by Kit Ward
Paris bookshop
April 22, 2020

Beginning a fiction series: form and structure

The novella has never been a hugely popular form. It’s often seen as a kind of in-between fiction, neither...

by Kit Ward
Paris travel poster
April 13, 2020

Beginning a fiction series: protagonist and setting

My first notion of Calypso Bergère was a kind of female Tintin, an intrepid teen-detective and adventurer inhabiting a...

by Kit Ward

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