30 March 2007

The British Empires' Rebellious Colonies

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Earlier this week I wrote about the rebirth of the British Empire in Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimaeus series and Philip Reeve’s Larklight (whi...
29 March 2007

Let's Get Messy

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What's the deal with British book designers? With a few exceptions (Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses ), I much prefer American covers...
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28 March 2007

More of the British Empire in Larklight

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Like Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus trilogy , Philip Reeve's Larklight revisits the British Empire. Indeed, it revisits that empire d...
27 March 2007

Bartimaeus and the British Empire

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In the past year I’ve written about nationalist themes in an Irish fantasy series and an American fantasy series . But what of the British,...
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26 March 2007

Would You Like Big Staring Eyes with That?

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McDonald's® has started to sell Madame Alexander® Wizard of Oz® figurines, inspired by the MGM movie, as premiums in its Happy Meals® . ...
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25 March 2007

Pullman Panel Promotion

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Following breadcrumbs laid through the woods at Educating Alice , I found Saestina's report on a panel in Oxford where Philip Pullman p...
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24 March 2007

Now We're Talking

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Bookshelves of Doom’s T-shirt of the week : Our first glimpse of Rupert Psmith in P. G. Wodehouse’s public-school novel Mike and Psmith : A ...
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23 March 2007

Red-Letter Day

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Many happy returns of the day to Kit and Justin !

Poetry Friday: Love Sonnet of an Office Boy

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I rarely remember Poetry Friday until it's well, Friday, so I put this one by last week. It is the first of Samuel Ellsworth Kiser’s Lov...
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22 March 2007

Longfellow Bicentennial Concert, 25 March

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On Sunday afternoon, 25 March, there will be a free concert at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Henry Wadswo...