elsewhere - Lisa Pasold

the inimitable Raymond Chandler: By the way, would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I ...

i'm smitten with the visual thesaurus ...as if a normal thesaurus wasn't distracting enough!

French writer Daniel Pennac is currently reading Herman Melville's Bartleby , nightly, on a little side-street not far from the Paris O...

in this bookcase alone, i have Margaret Atwood (whose Handmaid's Tale came under fire just last month in Ontario), Alice Walker (a gro...

raise a glass to Charles Darwin! everyone's favourite bearded evolutionist was born exactly 200 years ago, on February 12, 1809. the NYT...

the snow is already melting from one of my favourite Paris streets. the domes of Sacre Coeur looked particularly eerie through this morning...

with thanks to 2 or 3

Parliament has reopened...without any bling. "old decisions must be rethought" is about as radical as Harper got, in the Governor ...