Book Review: Dracul.
[The following contains spoilers.] You cannot understand Count Dracula without first getting the lie of the land. One of the …
Category Archives: Literary Review
How Best to Read Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris.
Eugène Sue’s crime novel The Mysteries of Paris was originally published in ninety instalments in the newspaper Journal des débats …
Short Story Review: The Bram Stoker Bedside Companion.
Count Dracula was the brainchild of the Irish writer Bram Stoker, who might seem to us today to be more …
Notes, Critical and Contextual, on RL Stevenson’s The Dynamiter: The Character of Prince Florizel.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. THE INFLUENCE OF SAMUEL SMILES’ SELF-HELP. …
The Retrial of Meursault.
[Scene: A swelteringly hot courtroom in Algeria. Three judges, two in black and the third in scarlet, enter the courtroom …
What does Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina mean?
[The following contains spoilers.] I never read graphic novels – there is enough on my plate already! – but I …
Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Dynamiter and The Puritan-Provincial Vision.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. THE INFLUENCE OF “SELF-HELP.“ “Robert Louis …
Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help versus Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Dynamiter.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. Had Samuel Smiles been ever asked …
Notes, Critical and Contextual, on RL Stevenson’s The Dynamiter: The Influence of Scheherazade.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. I have heard, O fortunate reader, that once the Sasanian …
Book Review: Go, Went, Gone.
[The following contains spoilers.] Jenny Erpenbeck‘s Go, Went, Gone was first published in 2015 and it appeared in English, translated …
Book Review: Who’s Your City?
[This is old material, being first published on Tychy in 2014 as part of a series on city states. For …
Book Review: Cities and the Wealth of Nations.
[This is old material, being first published on Tychy in 2014 as part of a series on city states. For …
Notes, Critical and Contextual, on RL Stevenson’s The Dynamiter: The Influence of the One Thousand and One Nights.
INTRODUCTION. When writing to his cousin and near namesake Bob Stevenson in 1882, Robert Louis Stevenson reminisced about how they …
Notes, Critical and Contextual, on RL Stevenson’s The Dynamiter: Introduction.
On September 11 2001, four passenger airliners were hijacked over the USA’s north-eastern seaboard. Two of them were flown into …
Book Review: The End of Europe
How can James Kirchick apprehend the “end of Europe” when he has no ready starting-point? What exactly is ending and …
