TODAY: In 1902, P.G. Wodehouse’s novel The Pothunters is published in London by A & C Black. Originally serialized in Public School Magazine, The Pothunters is his first published novel.
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On a quiet island off the coast of Ireland, a woman with no memory claws her way out of her grave and back to life. Drawing on the creatures and horrors of Irish folklore, Neil Sharpson’s The Burial Tide unearths many secrets.
“The technology changes, the content changes, the purposes change, but the artistic urge to create a sense of the lifelike, the moving, the temporal in a visual art that is otherwise static remains unchanged.” Leo Braudy on the Lucas Museum and the question of narrative art. | Los Angeles Review of Books
On Italian writer and journalist Dino Buzzati and rethinking the middlebrow: “Buzzati’s fiction re-enters literary history not as a comforting escape, but as a sharp tool for existential inquiry across geographical borders.” | Public Books
“There is no longer a foreign ‘elsewhere’ where we can displace our anxieties. America is the imperial, authoritarian ‘Other.’” John Semley considers the state of cinematic villains. | The Baffler
