Kay Nielsen, They Saw that the Cottage Was Made of Bread and Cakes, 1924 

 

Recent links of note:

How the Grimm Brothers Saved the Fairy Tale
Jack Zipes, Humanities
Did someone say...Philology?

Picking Up The Torch: The Golden Age of the Continuation Novel
Rhys Griffiths, History Today
"The concept of one novelist ‘writing as’ another […] is an increasingly familiar feature of the contemporary literary landscape. My copy of The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory doesn't include an entry on the continuation novel, but future editions probably will. In recent years Sebastian Faulks has written as P.G. Wodehouse, William Boyd as Ian Fleming, Sophie Hannah as Agatha Christie, Anthony Horowitz as Arthur Conan Doyle, and more. ‘When you read Anthony Horowitz' new James Bond novel in September, you will think it is a lost Ian Fleming’, tweets literary agent Jonny Geller."

Metropolitan Museum of Art Names Daniel Weiss President as Emily Rafferty Steps Down
Alexandra Peers, The New York Observer
An art historian, academic, and president of Haverford College, his areas of specialty appear to be medieval art, the crusades, and the Byzantine Age.

A literary war
George Bornstein, The Times Literary Supplement
WWII Victory Books: "To heave one in the garbage can is tantamount to striking your grandmother."

Vatican knew about theft of Michelangelo letters, refuses ransom demand 
Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service
The Vatican does not negotiate with terrorists. 

 

From our pages:

The epic of Ezra
Paul Dean
A review of A. David Moody's Ezra Pound: Poet. A Portrait of the Man and His Work, Volume II: The Epic Years, 1921–1939.

 

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