Light reading

I was on the verge of writing B. an email earlier - "Getting into bed with Raymond Williams" - only I realized that what I really ...

The Cat Tracker Project .

Diana Athill on luxury .

One of the services the professional catsitters provide is a very funny note to greet you on your arrival home (NYC often outdoes even your ...

At the end of January my father and I were both keen to read Antonia Fraser's memoir of childhood, My History ; it's not properly p...

A lovely interview with Dorothea Lasky at P&W (via Robert Polito): I use that word “performance” a lot when discussing teaching, and I ...

Gore Vidal's morning-after revisionism .

Have had a good miscellany of light reading, but it's been too long since I logged it: better do some catch-up, with recommendations. ...

The bionic bra (via GeekPress ): 'The easiest way to explain it is if you're sitting down, the bra is relaxed and comfortable, and ...

Charlie Stross and Lavie Tidhar on the late great Terry Pratchett. (My favorite books of his are the Death books in the Discworld sequen...

Shiny things ! (Via B.) Also: Rock-climbing cats (via Jane); unwarranted pouncing (ditto).

This , this .

Nico on Madonna : I am similarly frustrated and yet moved by Madonna’s resistance to giving us any real personal details. Many of the songs ...

At the NYRB blog, April Bernard on Laura Ingalls Wilder .

At the LRB blog, Inigo Thomas considers the sartorial flair or lack thereof of Guy Burgess : From Moscow, he carried on paying his annual me...