The little white attic

1/ As I’m reading Don Quixote , it may be a good idea to examine the long-held view that Don Quixote is the first modern novel, and the re...

1/ The line above comes from P.1, ch.25 of Tom Lathrop’s translation. I’ve been very much enjoying Don Quixote , laughing in public like a l...

The Truce is sequel to If This Is a Man —the two books should be read together—but it is a rather different book: depicting Primo Levi’s jo...

Having just finished reading The Truce , Primo Levi’s memoir about his journey home from Auschwitz, I shall, I suppose, need some time to re...

Films  In February, I watched Past Lives , The Holdovers , Maestro , and American Fiction .  It probably says something about me—I know no...

Facebook has just reminded me that 5 years ago, my experimental short Footfalls won the Royal Television Society Student Award – Short Form...

As Blogger would make you sign in to verify your age, I have decided to publish the list on Google Docs.  Enjoy! 

I’m currently reading If This Is a Man (known in the US as Survival in Auschwitz ), a memoir by Jewish Italian chemist/writer Primo Levi.  ...

At its most basic, my measure of a King Lear production or film adaptation is rather simple: does it make me cry at Lear’s reunion at Cordel...

Aren’t you amazed at the range of characters in Shakespeare? I mean not just a range in backgrounds, identities, personalities, viewpoints, ...