The little white attic

I suppose I’m part of the problem.   “Why do they keep adapting Jane Austen a zillion times instead of Frances Burney?”, I asked. And yet I ...

1/ A Shakespeare fan never runs out of things to read.  I’ve been enjoying If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation ...

Hồi trước, tôi đã gom lại một mớ bài thơ tục của Hồ Xuân Hương. Nhưng Hồ Xuân Hương tất nhiên đâu chỉ viết thơ tục. Giờ gom lại một số bài v...

The first thing I’m gonna say is that I don’t particularly like reading poetry in translation (look, I don’t even read much poetry in the or...

1/ Look at the defence of novels in Northanger Abbey :  ““I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read n...

1/ Evelina (1778) and Cecilia (1782) have a few things in common: both are about a young country girl’s experience in London; both feature...

I’ve never been much of a poetry person. I thought Shakespeare would be my gateway into poetry, but no. Or rather, I do like dramatic and ep...

It was last year when I discovered Satoshi Kon. He’s now one of my favourite directors, and guess what, you should watch his films too, even...

1/ My summary of the second chapter of the Book of Daniel:  The king: Interpret my dream. People: What’s the dream? The king: I don’t rememb...

1/ Judges and Ruth precede the Books of Samuel—I’ve been reading the Bible in the wrong order, I know, but then I don’t think Christians rea...