Morphosis

So, I've been thinking about the business of alternate history. I only recently read the book by Louis-Napoléon Geoffroy-Château (...

'Le petit homme rouge berçant son fils'. Le grosse caisse de l'europe. I thought 'caisse' meant box, cash-regi...

So, Coleridge referred many times to his big book, his life's work, which was to sum-up and express in a single place the whole of h...

At the moment I'm reading Burgess's Honey for the Bears (1963), his lightly fictionalised account of the trip he and his wife took ...

So, friend, you think my face and legs in stone Are signs that I have failed? Friend, think again. When I ascended to my marble throne...

OK: anybody want to tell me what that elephant is supposed to be doing? (The book is here .)

Isn't this splendid? It's by Martin Droeshout , he of the Shakespeare First Folio portrait. From that Wikipedia link we learn th...