Tall in the Land of Stories

I grew up with James Bond. I remember watching Goldfinger at the Drive-In, (at the Dakota I think it was, but may be wrong), and Moonraker a...

Nick Hornby is a remarkable writer, not because he writes well (he does), but because he is easy to read. It is one of the most difficult il...

Under the most excellent title Le Clézio, le backlash, Adrian Tahourdin writes an article in the Times Literary Supplement on the most recen...

An Open Swimmer, published in 1982, is Tim Winton’s first short novel, and won the Australian /Vogel Award for Best First Novel. To anyone w...

Twilight of the feet of the Idols No hero is ever safe from being felled by his/her past. I discovered this when the story broke that Gunthe...

Bulwer-Lytton rules. When Snoopy wrote: it was a dark and stormy night, the crafty Beagle was, of course, plagiarising the late Edward Georg...