The little white attic

We all have literary prejudices, don't we? Like some people refuse to read Nabokov, at least Lolita , because they think it romanticises...

As the Oscar for Best actor this year has just been awarded to Eddie Redmayne for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everythi...

https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/6170671?p=policy_update&rd=1 "Starting March 23, 2015, you won't be able to public...

The Moonstone is an epistolary novel. This form has many advantages: the "realistic" look, the various points of view, the mingli...

- Best actor: Bradley Cooper in American Sniper Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game ...

The Moonstone, sacred, rare, extremely valuable, and cursed. Possessed by a scheming, wicked man and inherited by his niece, according to th...

On this date 51 years ago was the 1st hearing of the trial of Joseph Brodsky. Here is the transcript, in English, of the whole trial, for an...

1/ The Language of Truth: Charlotte Bronte, The Woman Question and the Novel (Harriet Bjork): - CB: major, if somewhat uneven artist, her...

A man I know thinks that we shouldn't criticise/ disdain a book, in this case, Fifty Shades of Grey , before reading it. Which is true, ...

I took these photos yesterday afternoon, with my recently bought smartphone. No filter.  https://plus.google.com/photos/104156964467977244...