Eli S. Evans: Is That It

On February 2 2022, Ulysses turns 100...

The men stayed one year, then another. Where else to go?

My favourite public-house, the Moon Under Water, is only two minutes from a bus stop, but it is on a side-street...

Where do you put that memory as you sit in a café in Dizengoff Street, when it taps you on the shoulder and asks if this seat is taken?

With these impedimenta carefully corded up in a strong deal box I felt myself equal to any photographic emergency...

Unlike the ancient Odyssey or the modernist Ulysses, the epic work that is Amazon delivers immediate gratification to all customers...

The biggest delight of my Conan Doyle sleuthing may well be a false clue, even if the facts are not in doubt...

The art work in fiction is less likely to be the basis for some epiphany than to be a MacGuffin...

Did Marinetti's visit to Argentina contribute to the spread of Fascism?

It is the Donkey’s acceptance and internalisation of the judgement from on high that is so shockingly modern as it prefigures the mentality of victims in witch hunts, show trials, struggle sessions and other kinds of brain washing...

It seems there are some writers who teach you how to write and there are others who teach you what to write about...

Michael Pietsch and David Foster Wallace’s collaboration on Infinite Jest highlights the intervenient role of the editor as the mediator between the author and the reader, or the author and the publisher...

Who knew that William Bankes was an amateur of Thomas Love Peacock! Perhaps I should have...

I’d pounce on the British music newspapers, the NME and Melody Maker...

Marcel Proust represents many things. Chief among these perhaps, especially for non-French readers, is quantity...