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  • Tim Berners-Lee and his World Wide Web

    Tim Berners-Lee and his World Wide Web

    Google tweeted today: “27 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau published their proposal for a little something called the ‘WorldWideWeb’.” That was the first web browser.

    November 13, 2017
  • Orwell: Why I Write, BBC and Reflections on Gandhi

    Orwell: Why I Write, BBC and Reflections on Gandhi

    Anyone who likes to write will probably agree with some of the things George Orwell (June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950) has to say on why we write. In his essay, Why I Write, which appeared in 1946, four years before he died at the age of 46, Orwell wrote:

    November 11, 2017
  • RK Narayan’s Malgudi Days

    RK Narayan’s Malgudi Days

    RK Narayan enjoyed writing short stories more than novels. He said so in the introduction to his collection of short stories, Malgudi Days. First published in Penguin Books in 1984, Malgudi Days includes selections from his earlier collections, An Astrologer’s Day and Other Stories (1947) and Lawley Road and Other Stories (1956 ), as well […]

    November 5, 2017
  • Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar

    Scholarship is like technology, always evolving. The Arden Shakespeare edition of Julius Caesar I picked up from the library can’t be the Arden edition of Julius Caesar I read in my schooldays. This edition, first published in 1998, is edited by David Daniell, who begins his introduction to the play by asserting, “Julius Caesar is […]

    November 5, 2017
  • As You Like It, Rosalind

    As You Like It, Rosalind

    Rosalind has been my favourite Shakespearean heroine from the first time I read As You Like It. That was shortly after the Beatles had disbanded, when soft rock was ruling the airwaves and there were no such things as PCs and the World Wide Web. The world has changed utterly since then even in its […]

    October 30, 2017
  • Forever Fats Domino

    Forever Fats Domino

    Blueberry Hills belongs with Elvis Presley’s Are You Lonesome Tonight?, Joan Baez’s Diamonds and Rust, and Bob Dylan’s Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right and It Ain’t Me Babe among the sweetest, saddest love songs of all time. And now the voice and piano behind Blueberry Hill is dead. Fats Domino has died at the […]

    October 26, 2017
  • Homage to Adrian Henri

    Homage to Adrian Henri

    The poems of Adrian Henri are as catchy and simple as pop songs. He, Roger McGough and Brian Patten were the three Liverpool poets presented in The Mersey Sound, a bestselling poetry anthology of all time. First published in 1967, The Mersey Sound has sold over a half million copies.

    October 24, 2017
  • P.G. Wodehouse and the Beatles

    P.G. Wodehouse and the Beatles

    There’s something in common between PG Wodehouse and the early Beatles. Both are unique and both are fun. Listen to Beatles hits like Please Please Me, Help and A Hard Day’s Night – you are struck by the sheer energy and exuberance, the boys sound like no one else on earth. And the lyrics and […]

    October 15, 2017
  • Kazuo Ishiguro and other Nobel Prize winners writing in English

    Kazuo Ishiguro and other Nobel Prize winners writing in English

    More than a quarter of the Nobel prizes in literature awarded since 1901 have gone to authors writing in English. But English is not the mother tongue of all of them. Kazuo Ishiguro is the fourth Nobel prize winner in literature who writes in English but whose mother tongue isn’t English.

    October 8, 2017
  • Anthony Howard and the old New Statesman

    Anthony Howard and the old New Statesman

    I just came across Anthony Howard on Wikipedia. He was the editor of the New Statesman when I used to look forward to every issue of the weekly. Just out of high school, reading English as an undergrad, I had a thing about newspapers and magazines back then. Shakespeare and Wordsworth were all very grand […]

    December 19, 2016
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