Book Review: The Man With The Golden Gun.
[The following contains spoilers.] With one last, courageous effort, in January 1964 he tapped out the first draft…. Where once …
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Book Review: The Ruin Of All Witches.
In seventeenth-century New England witches were often hunted with a great deal of circumspection. The evidence for their guilt had …
Book Review: High Spirits.
It is quite obviously wrong for ghosts to be funny but it is a graver sin when they are harmless. …
Book Review: Mahomet and His Successors.
What is the significance of Washington Irving’s combined biography and historical epic Mahomet and His Successors (1849-)? Today it is …
Book Review: Pine by Francine Toon.
[The following contains spoilers.] Pine is a debut novel by Francine Toon (who is otherwise the poet Francine Elena) and …
Book Review: How To Survive Everything by Ewan Morrison.
[The following contains major spoilers.] Ewan Morrison’s latest novel, How To Survive Everything, begins on the road to the Scottish …
Book Review: Freedom!, An Anthology of Poems, Short Stories and Essays.
Freedom! is a treasury of helpful wisdom from thirty-six authors who are all “questioning Covid restrictions and lockdowns.” The preface …
Book Review: L’Île Mystérieuse by Jules Verne.
[The following contains spoilers.] [All of the English quotations in the following are taken from the 1876 translation by Stephen …
Book Review: The Crown Agent by Stephen O’Rourke.
[The following contains spoilers.] Stephen O’Rourke QC is a big bug in the ointment of Edinburgh’s legal profession. He has …
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Tall Tale.
As the USA rolled westwards, the tall tale, a species of folk mischief, had emerged as the acutest cultural expression …
What is meant by the House in Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi?
[The following contains spoilers.] Any dream is a sequence of baffling and disquieting events, with all of them colluding in …
Aristocrats in Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris.
[The following is left over from my series on Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris. It should be read as …
Short Story Review: “Midnight House” and “Across the Moors.”
Midnight House and Other Tales (1910) is William Fryer Harvey’s debut volume of short stories. He must have written juvenilia, …
On the Motif of Hell in Ernest Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream.
[The following contains spoilers.] Has Thomas Hudson, the hero of Ernest Hemingway’s posthumously-published novel Islands in the Stream (1970), been …
Surveillance in Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris.
Eugène Sue’s crime novel, The Mysteries of Paris, was originally serialised in the Journal des Débats between 1842 and 1843. …
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