No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he …
Tolstoy on doing “a lot of bad things, without wishing to – simply from imitating grown-ups”
When researching Tolstoy, I find myself noticing a common theme of failure: of not being quite good …
“The universe is made of stories, not atoms”: 10 reasons to tell your story, as inspired by Bobette Buster’s Do Story
Bobette Buster, a story consultant, lecturer and screenwriter, covers a huge amount in the 112 …
“Works which made an impression”: Leo Tolstoy’s favourite books from each stage of his life
Tolstoy, 1895. Published by Cassell and Co, NY, 1911.In 1891, a Petersburg publisher (who …
Nick Hornby: our appetite for books is the “literary equivalent of salads, or chocolate, or meat and potatoes”
Published in 2004, the book is a collection of Hornby's "StuffI've Been Reading" …
“A hunter knows when to quiet his mind”: Sherlock Holmes, Maria Konnikova, and a defence of solitude
I wrote in my last article about the classical scholar Edith Hamilton, who wrote of Aeschylus: …