China through Chinese literature
Glad to highlight a new audiobook company dedicated to bringing modern Chinese fiction to a wider audience through new and...
The richest of all soils
The use of 'rich soil' to represent fertile ground for writing isn't surprising but this reference to 'decayed literature' is. ...
Mind the (heart-shaped) gap
Ah, heart-shaped gaps! How many people walk around with these, whether in their personal, professional, cultural or spiritual life? May...
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....
Life and Fate – documentary
Stumbled across an excellent documentary by Priscilla Pizzato, Life and Fate by Vasili Grossman (in French, with English subtitles) on...
It happens to the best of them
Isn't it somehow reassuring that even the Steinbecks of the world can have creative meltdowns? Here he describes a play...
Great grassy hills
A beautiful description of a large-hearted calming character, who has a benign influence on those around him. We need more...
Safe rendering
The Russian author Vasily Grossman here resists editorial efforts to render the first of his Stalingrad novels, For a Just...
Made up and yet true
A piercing rationale for the arts, if a rationale is needed. They are made up, but ...
Why read literature?
‘Why read literature? Because it enriches life in ways that nothing else quite can. It makes us more human.’
I'm...
Forgetting and forgetfulness
I like this questioning of cause versus effect in the writing - and reading - of novels. Does writing and...
Of frantic birds and free human beings
A withering riposte to any attempt at ensnarement or wing-clipping. Mr. Rochester tries to bind Jane to him but soon...
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