The little white attic

  Over Christmas, my family and I watched Odissea , an Italian-language adaptation of the Odyssey in 8 episodes—not a Christmas series, I k...

Filmmakers all have to make changes when adapting a literary work, which sometimes works very well, but in the case of Ulysses (1954), pret...

  Two Pride and Prejudice series are coming up: a Netflix straight adaptation (top) and The Other Bennet Sister by the BBC (bottom).  1/ I ...

For a few years after I read Moby-Dick the first time, I often picked it up to reread certain chapters or passages. I stopped after a while...

Me wearing a Thai traditional dress.  Literature  In terms of reading, this has been a fantastic year. The main highlight was my discovery o...

16/12/2025 is the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth.  Over the years, I have written about her characters, ethics, and technique, and...

  Me doing the Mahanakhon skywalk.  I have just returned from my work trips to Jakarta and Bangkok.  It was strange, in a way, to be back in...

Not a comforting thought to an ignorant and slow reader like me, but Tom (Wuthering Expectations) was right when he said there’s no reading ...

  Aeneas Defeating Turnus by Luca Giordano. 1/ At some point in the poem, after a lot of fighting, Aeneas says to the people there:   “What ...

Over the past few months, I’ve been getting more properly into coffee, with my French press. As suggested by the title, I was writing down m...