...By the time of his death 100 years ago, Andrew Lang?s name could be found on 249 individual books and his collected journalism ran into thousands of articles. Yet today, the Selkirk author is largely forgotten ‘I NEVER yet met a man of genius,” said...
...Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan star in Drive. Taking books from the page to the screen is one of the hardest tasks in cinema. Screenwriters are often overlooked when they adapt a popular book: if the story is good then everyone presumes it's because the...
...My Side of the Mountain, which was fun, dragged to a halt on the Dresden Files thing, reread A.E.W. Mason's The Prisoner in the Opal, of which a review will be forthcoming once I figure out how to write it, and reread The Way of an...