At Sea With Claud Orkish.
This is a Christmas story but the brunt of it concerns the sea. It will start in something like the …
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This morning, James and I presented ourselves at the front door of a villa in Morningside. James rang the doorbell. …
Downing Street Parties and the Age of Insincerity.
It is self-evident that Boris Johnson should resign because of the “parties” that his government department had held during the …
The Bane of the Buses.
It surely shakes Edinburgh’s status as a capital city that its bus network was finally closed in its entirety yesterday …
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, …
At Doctor Hwangbo’s.
It was not yet ten in the morning but the sky was already straining in its depths with the acutest …
Podcast Review: The Heads of Sierra Blanca.
[The following contains spoilers.] The Paragon Collective is a commercial podcasting house that is based in Los Angeles. It was …
YouTube Review: Michael Jamison
Michael Jamison is a forty-five-year-old retired businessman who lives in a villa in Brakpan, South Africa, with two male tigers. …
Clearout.
Rufus Stewart owns a single-bedroom apartment in Gorgie, which he had until recently rented out to a young barman named …
Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris versus Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Dynamiter.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. THE INFLUENCE OF SAMUEL SMILES’ SELF-HELP. …
Reading Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris in light of The One Thousand and One Nights.
Eugène Sue’s serialised crime novel The Mysteries of Paris (1842-3) begins with a device that had been treasured by contributors …
Putting a Value on Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris.
The central plot-line… is that of a mystery-of-kinship story whose basic literary shape derives from the mystery-romances of Gothic and …
Book Review: The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies.
[In taking all of the quotes in this review from an e-book facsimile of The Secret Commonwealth, I have switched …
The Place of Bitters (Pique-Vinaigre) in The Mysteries of Paris.
[Here are some notes on the names that are used in this article.] Almost a thousand pages into his serialised …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Gigolo: Bold, Beautiful, Bizarre.
Is the best show that I have seen so far at this year’s Fringe a one-man play? This would be …
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