Manners and modernity in I Capture the Castle
I recently finished I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, a 1949 novel that is littered with scenes of eating. The narrator Cassandra is the middle child of the eccentric Mortmain family: […]
I recently finished I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, a 1949 novel that is littered with scenes of eating. The narrator Cassandra is the middle child of the eccentric Mortmain family: […]
I’ve been watching Wolf Hall (again!) with a friend who recently picked up the novels. Both the books and the television adaptation are very dense with detail, so there’s always […]
I’ve been reading Lolly Willowes, a 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner set at the turn of the 20th century. The story reminds me a lot of the pastoral 19th century novels […]
Some bloggers love looking at and posting about the strange poetry of search terms that bring internet searchers to our sites. It’s satisfying to see how visible we are in […]
I’ve been on an Elizabeth Gaskell kick this spring: once I’d fallen in love with North & South, I downloaded everything else I could find. Food often functions to convey […]
Dinah Fried is shortly releasing a book called Fictitious Dishes, which features photographs of meals she has styled after notable meals from literary classics: a pretty tea set from Alice […]
Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins has been making a bit of a splash in the book business, not least because one of its main characters is morbidly obese. Though I suspect (perhaps with premature […]
Eggs, according to Elizabeth Hale, whose article in Winter Gastronomica describes a multitude of egg dishes enjoyed by the agent in Ian Fleming’s series. Apparently Bond eats eggs in every one […]
The new Anna Karenina film is absolutely gorgeous–which anyone can plainly see from the trailer–but it is also quite sharp. I read the novel over the summer and was enthralled, […]
In A Moveable Feast, the chapter “Birth of a New School” begins with Hemingway-as-narrator evoking the coolness and the cleanness of a café early in the morning, a seemingly pure […]