The little white attic

You’re probably aware of the role of Shakespeare’s Richard II in the downfall of the second Earl of Essex, Robert Devereux. The popular sto...

I’ve been reading Jonathan Bate’s Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare . Before this one, I had read two other b...

1/ First, let’s get the who’s who questions out of the way.  The main character is Lord Timon (of Athens). Flavius is his steward. Timon’s s...

I finished Sanshiro last night. I don’t have a lot to say—in the end, the characters are still opaque, unlike those in Soseki’s Kokoro and...

Earlier this month I wrote a blog post called “What turns me on” , about what I look for when reading and what I most value in literature. H...

Fear no more the heat o’ the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages: Golde...

It was actually 13/2/2022 that marked 10 years of The little white attic , but I’ve been so busy that I forgot (silly, that’s me).  Lots of ...

I don’t have a lot to say about Joel Coen’s film adaptation of Macbeth , but I’m going to jot down some brief thoughts anyway.  The first t...

Botchan is about a 22-year-old guy from Tokyo coming to a small town to become a teacher. Sanshiro is about a 23-year-old guy from a small ...

From July 2021 to February 2022  In bold: films/ plays that I think are good  1/ Poirot: Third Girl (2008)  2/ A Star Is Born (1954)  3/ Poi...