Category Archives: History
Gareth Hinds
Brigitte Reimann: Siblings
Nasty women through the ages
Not only are women frail and ill-suited to hardship, but when they slip the leash they become vicious, scheming and hungry for power.
Min Jin Lee: Pachinko
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration (Charles Dickens) Continue reading Min Jin Lee: Pachinko
Cats will be cats
Rabih Alameddine: The Wrong End Of The Telescope
Julie Halls: Inventions That Didn’t Change The World
Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities
Boris In The Willows
Gert recently set off an interesting exchange with this letter to the paper:
Do the parties in Downing St remind anyone else of the weasels and stoats taking over Toad Hall in Wind in the Willows?
Correspondents had a lot of fun, as you can see: