Bengali poet, storywriter and playwright Sukumar Ray (1887-1923) was perhaps the most famous practitioner of “literary nonsense” in the subcontinent. He is often compared to Lewis Carroll. His works ...

Bengali poet, fiction writer and playwright Sukumar Ray (1887-1923) was perhaps the most famous practitioner of “literary nonsense” in the subcontinent. He is often compared to Lewis Carroll. His ...

Leave aside too the question of why it should be Myers -- who confesses to preferring the kind of narrative prose now often found, and dismissed, in "genre" fiction -- who gets to set standards for ...

These seem like dark days for literary culture in general and the debut novel in particular. At least, that's what the Wall Street Journal tells us. Here's the Journal's publishing beat reporter on ...

This totally silly literary miscellany is “loosely inspired” by Isaac D’Israeli’s 1791 bestseller “The Curiosities of Literature.” It is for people who read too much, so much that the odd bits ...

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PUN | noun: a humorous way of using a word or phrase so that more than one meaning is suggested. What has Wonderland to do with Jerusalem? Lewis Carroll, a devout churchman, professor of logic, and ...

This totally silly literary miscellany is “loosely inspired” by Isaac D’Israeli’s 1791 bestseller “The Curiosities of Literature.” It is for people who read too much, so much that the odd bits ...