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Gogol. No, really. For both work and pleasure. My copy of “The Overcoat” went in the Great Book Robbery of 1998 , so hooray for Project Gute...

In the 4 May issue of National Business Review , David Cohen writes about speculation that Emily Perkins’ new novel The Forrests may be a c...

Or, let’s party like it’s 1999. To illustrate its February round up of books published to mark Queen Elizabeth’s jubilee, the Literary Re...

I am looking forward to meeting Dame Stella Rimington next weekend. Not often one gets to meet a famous spy . She was the head of MI5 and ...

Shinin’ through the trees? Today’s perigee moon isn’t that big a deal, really – last year’s on 19 March was bigger because the moon was...

XKCD , of course.

This story on Stuff is a repeater of something on the Internet, as the MSM is increasingly doing. (How many “journalists” does it take t...

Zombie at PJ Media (via David Thompson ) has what must be the blogpost of the month , about some idiots “occupying” a research farm run by...

“Brightness Falls”, live in 1993. Best heard on the live album Damage from David Sylvian and Robert Fripp’s all-too-brief collaborati...

Sam Leith reports on   bonkers books including Fish Who Answer The Telephone ; Lady Loverley’s Chatter ; The History of the Concrete Roofin...