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Words Fail Me: Virginia Woolf’s Sole Surviving Recording
English novelist and critic Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941), 1902. (Photo by George C. Beresford/Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Credit: Wikipedia.org “Perhaps that is [the] most striking peculiarity [of...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dangerously Singular Story of Melania Trump
Adichie recreates the very narrative she has famously warned against. Melania Trump (L) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (R). Credit: Reuters, Wikipedia Who would have thought that a deeply subliminal...
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Edward Albee Explored the Dark Passages of the American Dream
George Segal and Elizabeth Taylor in a still from the film ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.’ Every so often you encounter a great figure by accident. Your introduction to him is unsullied by versions...
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The ‘Unveiling’ of Elena Ferrante is a Political Issue
The unmasking of the real author of the Neapolitan series was an act of vandalism. The first and the last book in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series. Credit: Europa Editions It was always going to...
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You Really Can Judge a Book by Its Cover
The #bookstagram hashtag on Instagram is changing the way the world looks at reading. Credit: Eric2g/Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0 “What use is a book,” asked Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in...
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Painting in Circles and Loving in Triangles: The Bloomsbury Group’s Queer...
In what ways do our sexual pleasures and fantasies inform the way we see the world? Duncan Grant, Bathing, 1911. Credit: Tate via The Conversation ∼ Dearest, at this moment I would give my soul to the...
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