China through Chinese literature
Glad to highlight a new audiobook company dedicated to bringing modern Chinese fiction to a wider audience through new and...
Podcast review – Elizabeth Goudge’s Little White Horse
Listening time: 13 minutes. One of my top two children's books of all time, I first read Elizabeth...
Riding the spine of a book
The book as a kind of flying broomstick or galloping horse taking the boy into story land.
Safe rendering
The Russian author Vasily Grossman here resists editorial efforts to render the first of his Stalingrad novels, For a Just...
A page per year
Taleb is an erudite and provocative writer, sometimes coming across as intellectually arrogant, though always interesting. Here he shows a healthy...
Of hate and misery
Bronte has a sometimes arresting pithiness, and here she provides an explanation for the hatred underlying riots and machine wrecking...
The art of story-telling
Henry Miller is himself a wonderful writer, and this comment about a critical element of successful story-telling took me by...
Moss-eyed rascal
You can't but help like such a maverick, something in the moss-coloured eyes, and the difference between him and the...
Nail a rumour and pin down a fact
Steinbeck appears to have anticipated the age of fake news. This is particularly pertinent as we try to tease out...
Arthur Ransome – cover illustrations
If you've been following WritingRedux, you may have noticed a number of pawky playful gems from Arthur Ransome's children's books....
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