If on a winter’s night a traveller you knock on Neil Gaiman’s door
Winter is coming, or so they say. Well, I guess that they are right. It is really cold outside these days. Yet somehow I really like how solemn everything gets…
Humour and linguistics
Breaking of linguistic conventions and rules may seem strange in serious contexts such as court and religious situations, but the truth is that the informal conversation lends itself to verbal…
You haven’t been Burnsided yet? Review of The Dumb House
Reading The Dumb House, a novel written by the Scottish author John Burnside, is a Schrödinger's cat situation: two mutually exclusive interpretations sit together without cancelling each other out. On…
The big world in The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things is a novel written by the Indian author Arundhati Roy. It remains her only novel and is a stunning yet harrowing tale set in the…
Around the world in bookish news: From Shakespeare to Jane Austin
From Shakespeare to Jane Austin, read a new round of bookish news: 1. Shakespeare and film around the world- The list of film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays around the world…
Around the world in bookish news: Book Jackets Go Live and Other Stories
The news from the world literature are as follows: 1. Classic book jackets come to life – in pictures- Oh my God, they are alive! 2. Salman Rushdie: The Curse…
Around the world in bookish news: Rushdie’s Latest Novel and Other Stories
A new round of bookish news is here: 1. Newly discovered Dickens notes solve Victorian authorship mystery- Among the All Year Round contributors, we can find Lewis Carroll and a…