Last week I wrote about the complementary lost arts of letter writing and handwriting. Literary correspondence, once such a venerable genre, just hasn’t been the same since the advent of e-mail and text messages. And yet the ep...
July is the month when many countries celebrate their national day: it was Canada Day on the 1st, America’s birthday (of course) on the 4th, but also Algeria’s and Venezuela’s Independence Day celebrations on the 5th, Malawi’s ...
A Tradition of “Great Literature” from Female British Writers Great Britain has maintained its reputation as a literary continent for the past few centuries. Shakespeare, Donne, Dickens and the Brontës are but some ...