The little white attic

“In a Sentimental Mood” as performed by Duke Ellington (its composer) and John Coltrane is one of my favourite pieces in jazz. It’s tender, ...

Look at these lines—Flaubert describes the people at the Marquis’s party that Emma Bovary looks at:  “Their clothes, of better cut, seemed...

I’m rereading Madame Bovary after 6-7 years. The translation is by Christopher Moncrieff. This is a read-along, everyone is welcomed to join...

I’ve now listened to 12 John Coltrane albums: the 9 albums in the earlier post, plus Soultrane (1958), Dakar (recorded in 1957, released i...

Recently I saw an article in The Guardian which argued that instead of Shakespeare and Dickens, students in English classes should be taught...

After writing about fishes and their social relationships, Jonathan Balcombe devotes Part VI to fishes’ sexual behaviours and parenting styl...

As I’ve decided to delve into John Coltrane’s music, I’m going to listen in a more systematic way—listen to a whole album, instead of indivi...

1/ A few days ago I watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s again, probably the 3rd time.  My bf had never seen the film before, but knew about the ...

I discovered jazz several years ago, when doing a course called Multicultural American Literature at University of Oslo, which should have b...

In Part V of What a Fish Knows , Jonathan Balcombe writes about fishes in a community—with company/tank mates or in a shoal or school of fis...