Tuesday, November 27, 2018

I love the masses

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‘Evening. Soul-rending melancholy . . . Glory, death, and a prostitute. I left the house exhausted, weakened by unsuccessful work. Nevsky Pr...
Friday, November 23, 2018

Diaries and literary biography

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Until now there has been no significant analysis of the use of diaries in the development of literary biography. A new survey, however, find...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

Tergiversations of policy

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‘The thing which really worries me most here and now and which has worried me most during the preliminary conversations last winter is that ...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Refuge in numbers

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‘As for me the mind comes ahead always and everywhere. And the worldly wisdom, known from books, is saying that mind and love can scarcely b...
Sunday, November 18, 2018

Life at Jonestown

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It was 40 years ago today that over 900 people died at Jonestown in Guyana, having been ordered by their cult leader Jim Jones to partake of...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

The first biospeleologist

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Emil Racoviţă, one of the most distinguished of Romanian scientists, was born 150 years ago today. Though he lived in France for much of his...

Comings and goings

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Margaret Mead, one of the US’s most widely known 20th century anthropologists, died 30 years ago today. Her studies of traditional cultures ...
Thursday, November 8, 2018

Reprehensible social views

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‘One can acknowledge that there are Jews of the highest respectability, and yet regard it as a misfortune that there are so many Jews in Ger...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018

The journals of James Cook

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James Cook, one of the great heroes of the exploration age, was born 390 years ago today. He captained three famous expeditions to the Pacif...