A World of Speculation

Where are the readable books about books?

Writing in the London Review of Books, James Wood takes a pen to this question in his review of The Oxford English Literary History, Vol. XII: 1960-2000: The Last of England? by Randall Stevenson: This absence of a general, non-academic literary criticism is the...

OK, I’m the silly goose

Turns out that Elena the Chernobyl motorcyclist is a hoax. I hope none my readers took her advice about riding motorcycles through a death zone. Apparently, Elena herself did not. Cue laugh track.