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I saw this interesting article by Ashley Miller posted on Facebook: The food of my childhood, the food of Southern poor white trash . At th...

Medieval literature contains copious reference to a custom on New Year's Day, in obedience to which men disguised in deerskins or as old...

More exciting news from the world of Crisp - they're making a sequel, An Englishman in New York , which was the title of the second part...

John Coulthart 's excellent blog and website have disappeared - temporarily I hope. Oddly though, the RSS feed still seems to be worki...

It has always amazed me that some art apparently has the power to suggest suicide to people. Goethe's novella Die Leiden des Jungen Wer...

The other day I mentioned to a writer at a "do" that I had enjoyed his book. "Aha!" he cried. "A fan." Now,...

Three articles about Darwin by Olivia Judson in the New Yorker : June 17: Darwinmania! Darwin got all the glory, but did he deserve it? Ju...

In a move worthy of a Jeunet & di Caro film, a cultural "guerrilla" group has restored the clock of the Panthéon in Paris . T...