Monday, December 08, 2025

A Seasonal Tip

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Sunday, December 07, 2025

What We Can Know - Ian McEwen

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What We Can Know begins in 2119. Thomas Metcalfe is an academic who has travelled to the Bodleian Snowdonian Library to study the journals ...

The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser

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Original illustration © Daniel Gray-Barnett Ten days after I called off my engagement I was supposed to go on a scientific expedition to st...

Illustration for Sad Book

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Illustration - Michael Rosen’s Sad Book, 2004 by Quentin Blake (b. 1932) ( Biblioklept )
Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Night Before Christmas - Beatnik Style

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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Tom Gauld on ordering books online

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( The Guardian )
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Edward Hopper and the House by the Railroad, by Edward Hirsch (1995)

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House by the Railroad is a 1925 oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper. Out here in the exact middle of the day, This ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Tremor

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“Tremor,” a Poem by Fatema Abdoolcarim From the Collection Tremble I hear him before I see him. An underbelly of bright white light a ghost...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

The Book of Clear Shadows, 1867

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Images from the compilation book Clear Shadows (Kuma naki kage ) (aka Shadows Without Shadows; Silhouettes; or No Shadows in Any Nook or Cor...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

David Szalay's ‘Flesh’ has won the 2025 Booker Prize.

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Here is an excerpt:  There’s some sort of holdup. Every day they expect to fly out and every day they are told it will be “another twenty-...