Some Tom Gauld to start your work week
I’ve mentioned Tom Gauld’s Guardian illustrations before, but they’re worth another look (and laugh) on this Monday morning. (Thanks to Making Light for the reminder.)
I’ve mentioned Tom Gauld’s Guardian illustrations before, but they’re worth another look (and laugh) on this Monday morning. (Thanks to Making Light for the reminder.)
Margaret Atwood revisits Brave New World and finds it “as vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it.”
Was Graham Greene’s legendary stint in Mexico precipitated not by the Vatican but the Shirley Temple scandal?
Whatever, Scarlett: In A World Without Writers, classic films aren’t quite the same. See also David Kipen’s radical rewrite of U.S. film history.
Periodically readers write in to ask if my maternal grandfather really married thirteen times. I never met the man; he died the year before I was born. So all I can say is, that’s what my mother tells me. My grandmother corroborated some of the wilder tales, and told a few of her own, but mostly she didn’t like to . . .