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 …
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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 …
Scheherazade in Later Years.
She does not know, of course, that there need be only one thousand and one nights. She must go on …
The Collapse of Freight Books is Fantastic for the Scottish Arts.
It is a Rubik’s Cube that most of the Scottish media has been studying in bafflement. What twist can crack …
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 …
Book Review: Ten Days That Shook the World.
Somehow we have all conspired to remember one of the most profound events in human history by gravitating to the …
Book Review: Chasing the Chinese Dream.
Nick Holdstock is a writer to keep an eye on. His debut novel The Casualties (2015) had counted down to …
“Morning now dawned and Shahrazad broke off from what she had been allowed to say.”
Or at least this is part of Scheherazade’s spell – the idea that she walks around with an entire library …
Book Reviews: Inventing the Future and Creative Destruction.
Cor, I miss the days when that crate was in the air. I can remember staying at me Nan’s in …
Book Review: Riotous Assembly.
Tom Sharpe’s fiction can be compared to the single-wheeled electric scooter – a fantastic invention and widely admired, but one …
