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Vladimir Nabokov’s Butterfly Drawings, and Other News
Booktryst highlights well-known lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly drawings. Has the Royal Hall from Beowulf been found? Archaeologists believe they now know the location of the hall where...
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Margaret Atwood Will Not Blurb Your Book, and Other News
“I blurb only for the dead, these days.” Margaret Atwood’s form rejection poem. For centuries, Beowulf scholars have translated the epic’s opening line as, “Listen!” But now, Dr. George Walkden...
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What We’re Loving: Great Teachers, Great Books, Giant Wigs
1778 fashion plate of French court dress with wide panniers and artificially enhanced “big hair.” Plate 43 in Galerie des Modes for 1778. Some years ago, when I was trying to learn Spanish, I bought...
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Reddy Kilowatt, and Other News
Image via Retronaut Envisioning the brick-and-mortar bookstores of tomorrow: “Wide steps double as seating and lead down to a bar and a stage, where a writer performs—‘authors will become more like...
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Charles Keeping’s Beowulf
The British illustrator Charles Keeping (1924–88) is remembered largely for his work with children’s books. But his morbid style—his first book commission was Why Die of Heart Disease?—often felt...
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John Gardner’s Tricksy Death and Tangled Legacy
From the cover of John Gardner’s Grendel. I think it has given a few readers pleasure. And I suppose it may have depressed a few. I hope it does more good than harm. —John Gardner, when asked what...
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