Dreaming of Alice
The latest installment of Juan Santapau’s The Secret Knots — comics about what we do without knowing why — is “Lewis Carroll’s Nightmare.” (Via.)
The latest installment of Juan Santapau’s The Secret Knots — comics about what we do without knowing why — is “Lewis Carroll’s Nightmare.” (Via.)
Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, Robert Musil’s last pre-death volume, is one of the titles featured in this year’s Reading the World. (Via.)
Researching his forthcoming book on the tombs of Christ’s apostles has led Tom Bissell to some remote and unexpected places.
Speaking of Somerset Maugham: Terry Teachout will write the libretto for an opera based on “The Letter.”
Maugham, lauded in his own time, is now dismissed “as a creaking reminder of distant colonial days.” Bookslut seconds the call for a revival, and I’ll third it.