DEAD WOOD RHAPSODY
When was it we were promised the paperless office? It seems we can’t do without the white stuff.
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THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE
Orhan Pamuk talks about his most recently translated novel and his Museum of Innocence project in Istanbul, based on the novel of the same name.
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JOYCE ON THE BATTER
He asked them for credit, they answered him ‘Yea’ …
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CHEAP SHOTS
AN Wilson has a bit of a laugh at the expense of victims of sexual exploitation.
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SPLITTING THE VOTE
Young Nathan Zuckerman is preaching to his father about politics, but his father has some lessons too about what the Republican party is for.
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SEEING BRIGHT PICTURES
Charlotte Brontë receives some well meant advice from a more senior literary figure, which however she finds a little confusing.
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READING AS BUTCHERY
Dr Johnson loved books. He loved to pull them apart, rip the heart out of them, devour them.
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OTHER PEOPLE’S TRADES
Being a writer can be and has been combined with many other activities, manufacturing paint and varnish for example.
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QUIXOTE IN WICKLOW
When exactly was it that Protestant ascendancy began to decay in Ireland? In WB Yeats’s eloquent speech in the Irish senate in 1925 on the divorce question, there is already a feeling of harking back to a more illustrious past, a sense that the great days are regrettably over: “We against whom you have done…
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VENICE, CITY OF PRINT
In the late fifteenth century, the republic on the Adriatic was Europe’s most flourishing centre of publishing.