After returning from his voyage on HMS Beagle, collecting many specimens and starting to formulate his theory of evolution, Darwin took out…
Thoughts pursuant to reading Gertrude Levy’s Gate of Horn (1948; I read the second edition, 1963 ) — hardly the most up-to-date piece of work, and I’m sure it has been superseded in many ways by more recent scholars. But I found it…
I read Pascali’s Island back in 1980, in this very tie-in paperback edition, where the…
The appendices of The Lord of the Rings are full of stuff, details pertaining to the story of the novel as well as other stuff that the…
In ‘Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes’ (1986) [I talk about the Graceland album a little here] a young man’s…
