Not wanting to plunge into the intercalary days with a snotty review headlining the blog (see how superstitious I am for a rationalist?) I a...

I don't want the blog to turn into serial excoriations of the latest bit of entertainment to waste my time. Honestly, I'd far rat...

There’s a line near the start of Sunset Boulevard . Nancy Olson dismisses William Holden’s screenplay with the words, “It’s from hunger.” ...

A friend of mine once read the first volume of the Mirabilis Winter book on the night-train out of Moscow when snow threatened to stop him ...

Halloween is nearly here. Tell my next-door neighbours - they've had plaster pumpkins and a big witch's-hat display on their porc...

I was heartened recently to come across an article by Nabokov in which he spoke up for short stories. Thank goodness, I thought. Now I can ...

O magistri sapienissimi, In a fight between Hercules and Thor, who would win? Yours, Piers Craddock and Will Rice, St Paul’s Schoo...