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We’ve all heard the quote attributed to Cicero. I’ve still got the Amazon refrigerator magnet with the quote. But is it really a body without a soul? Especially when books and souls meant something completely different to Cicero than they do to us today. Without a doubt, I can say the house feels emptier without […]
Many thanks to Michael Orthofer at The Literary Saloon for passing on information about the George Eliot Archive. The George Eliot Archive is an extensive resource for anyone studying the author best known as George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans), one of the most highly acclaimed novelists in Western literature. The Archive provides free access […]
From the BBC article: Kenneth Branagh, Greta Scacchi, Mark Bonnar, Ann Mitchell, Doon Mackichan, Kenneth Cranham and more star in a dark and honest account of the epic battle of Stalingrad by celebrated war reporter and author, Vasily Grossman. Two part drama based on war reporter Vasily Grossman’s account also stars Greta Scacchi and Mark […]
The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1966 Hardcover, 210 pages Lucy Scholes’ article “Emeric Pressburger’s Lost Nazi Novel” at The Paris Review blog got my attention for several reasons. I’ve enjoyed several of the Powell and Pressburger movies and wanted to see how his talent from the screen would translate to […]
Földényi’s The Glance of the Medusa: The Physiognomy of Mysticism is a book I have on my Christmas list, so I hope to read more of it soon. Hungarian Literature Online has an excerpt from the book’s second chapter: For this reason, the moment of love is not only about finding oneself but also about […]
Found at Air Mail, an excerpt/adaptation from The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin, by Douglas Smith, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux today. An engrossing read (no pun intended). The stories began to appear in the Soviet press in the autumn of 1921, each one more […]
God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves Edited by Clifton H. Johnson, with a new introduction by Albert J. Rabateau The William Bradford Collection from The Pilgrim Press, 1993 (2nd edition) Paperback, 204 pages The reissue of a rare volume of ex-slave narratives is as timely now as it was when it first appeared in […]