The Readers Loft

Dublinesque is the story of Samuel Riba, retired publisher, recovered alcoholic, and more importantly someone for whom ‘reading is a way of being in the world, an instrument for interpreting day…

How much did Homer know about war? Well, for a start he’s pretty shaky on military tactics. Warfare in the Iliad breaks down into a series of impromptu duels, to…

An antidote to literary tiredness “The operation of writing implies that of reading as its dialectical correlative and these two connected acts (writing and reading) necessitate two distinct agents,” Jean…

Recently an author and scholar, Kathleen B. Jones, gave me her book. Jones is a professor emeritas of women’s studies at San Diego State University, and her book, Diving For Pearls:…

We have lost our best man,” wrote the historian E.P. Thompson, on hearing of the sudden death of Raymond Williams in 1988. Thompson, like many others, believed that only Williams…