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Anthony Burgess
July 8, 2022

Tools of the trade

In the extract above, Anthony Burgess is talking about his his trusty manual typewriter when he talks about ‘Qwert...

by Kit Ward
Anima Mundi - Robert Fludd
June 27, 2022

Before and after ‘Science’

A couple of weeks ago, the Quite Interesting Twitter account posted a photograph of a paragraph from a paper...

by Kit Ward
Bogart and Bacall in The Big Sleep
May 30, 2022

American-English comprehension

My love of cinema began in my mid-teens. Back then, when there were only four television channels in the...

by Kit Ward
Leaves of Grass cover
April 30, 2022

The curious case of the misleading blurb

As far as I know, no-one has ever had a complaint about a book blurb upheld by the Advertising...

by Kit Ward
Brick Lane film still
March 26, 2022

Sod authenticity

The writer Monica Ali said in a recent interview that the critical reaction to her 2011 novel Untold Story...

by Kit Ward
Interior of a Tavern Adriaen Brouwer
February 20, 2022

Scents and sensibility

Who’s heard of the Odeuropa project? Me neither, until I saw it briefly mentioned in a newspaper article. It...

by Kit Ward
Penda's Fen
January 16, 2022

Wessex, Mercia, and the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect

In a speech given in 2002, Michael Crichton, of Jurassic Park fame, coined the term, ‘Gell-Mann Amnesia effect’.

by Kit Ward
John Drinkwater
December 31, 2021

Forgotten writers are a thing of the past

I recently caught up with a 2017 article by the critic BD McClay, ‘Enough with the “forgotten” writers’, in...

by Kit Ward

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