Interesting facts about remarkable species.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 20 • 1872’
Publication of the final edition of ‘The Origin of Species’, and of ‘The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals’.
Book review: ‘W. G. Sebald in Context’ by Uwe Schütte (ed.)
A fascinating collection of academic essays about Sebald’s life, work and influences
Book review: ‘The Notebook’ by Roland Allen
A history of thinking on paper.
Book review: ‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen
Toffs being toffs.
Book review: ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 1’
Virginia Woolf’s diaries for 1915–1918.
Couldn’t agree more, Guardian ‘Saturday’ magazine
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 19 • 1871’
A busy year for Darwin: ‘The Descent of Man’ published, with another book on the way, and the final edition of ‘The Origin of Species’.
Taking the Mickey
Until this morning, I thought Steamboat Willie was some unmentionable medical condition, but I stand corrected… BBC: Disney’s earliest Mickey and Minnie Mouse enter public domain as US copyright expires
2023 in a nutshell
My thirteenth annual video slide-show of the year.