Chris Impens @ Valvas

Speaking of comic songs and parties, reminds me of a rather curious incident at which I once assisted; which, as it throws much light upon t...

De roman The Day of The Jackal van Frederick Forsyth verscheen in 1971, er werd in 1973 verfilmd door Fred Zinneman. Het is een relaas van ...

The Austrian doctor Ella Lingens-Reiner (short biography here ) spent 26 months in Nazi captivity, mostly in the Women's Concentration C...

The bonfire of the vanities , by Tom Wolfe, appeared in 1987. It is a masterpiece, of which we quote a page from Chapter 9, Some Brit Named ...

Dutch literature is treated separately here . Each one of the following (listed chronologically) I read at least twice, some three to four ...

 Sources: Anthony Burgess,  Ernest Hemingway. Thames and Hudson, 1978. Rena Sanderson (ed.). Blowing the bridge. Essays on Hemin...

Thomas Dixon jr. was a lawyer, state legislator, preacher, novelist, playwright, actor, lecturer, real-estate speculator, and mo...

Surely, you know Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome. If not, read it. It contains many extremely funny anecdotes, of which the autho...

In 1998, James Joyce's "Ulysses" was elected Book of the Century , an honour it shares with others . A few years ago, I wanted...

In 1997, Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was elected Book of the Century , beating Orwell and Joyce. I agree. What Tolkien managed to p...