Of ardent persistence
One of my favourite literary dogs is Ottimo Massimo, who belongs to the tree-dwelling protagonist of one of Calvino's best...
The dog who understood
This mongrel, scooped up off the streets, in Vasily Grossman's imagined story of the real creature who was the first...
Riding the spine of a book
The book as a kind of flying broomstick or galloping horse taking the boy into story land.
The Magic Ink-Pot
Always on the hunt for treasures among forgotten children's books, I came across this one by chance when I was...
A box of mysteries
A novel reason for taking fairy tales seriously. Beyond their charm and imagination, they have an added bonus of reminding...
Street stories
The street as a fount of stories, conveying the detail and complexity of human lives, even those which may appear...
Stories as therapy
The story as a means to bear sorrow is an idea I'd like to believe, but can't quite relate to...
New year’s readolutions
Happy new year!  What will you be reading?  What do you wish to read? Feel free to send me a...
The components of story
This idea keeps coming back to me, and even though I question the components featured, intuitively it sounds right. Another...
Russian tales and legends
There is a dark-forested haunting element to the illustrations in this French rendition of Russian stories. They are part of...
The gift of our stories
Robert Chandler is a translator of one of my most admired tellers of human stories, Vasily Grossman. Â Grossman's skill lies...
Tales from Australia and Oceania
This book cover and related illustrations are from a wonderful old French series of tales and stories from around the...
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