The name of Engelbert Humperdinck has crossed my path three times, and all three occasions resulted in fairy-tale endings. The first two were of the kind where the princess marries her frog (who turned out to be a film star, of course) and everyone lives happily-ever-after in a mindless Never-Never-Land … Read more … →

  As the immortal Jesse would say: “This week, I ’as been mostly readin’ Proust!”.  To be more precise, I’ve just finished reading Swann’s Way, the first of the seven volumes which go to make up Marcel Sprout’s (sorry: old habits die hard) Marcel Proust’s gargantuan novel À la recherche … Read more … →