The links above will guide you to specific books and topics, but for a smorgasbord of news and recent posts, take a look below.
Shanghai Book Review interview by QIU Xiaolong
This article appeared in Chinese in the Shanghai Book Review on 25 September, but I didn't see it until I woke up on the 26th, my birthday as well as T. S. Eliot's. It's wonderful [...]
Valerie Eliot and the making of CATS
When I started working for Valerie Eliot in 1986, the musical Cats was only a few years into its record-breaking run in London, but it had already made Valerie a wealthy woman. She was rather [...]
Home Ecology Tips in English and Chinese
Our friend and colleague Catherine ZHOU kindly translated some introductory sections from Karen Christensen’s in-progress book Home Ecology. Versions of these tips were included in some of her previous books, and she is busy compiling [...]
Trollope: Toast & Marital Troubles
I love Anthony Trollope's novels. I am reading Orley Farm and find that one of his topics is male infidelity, or at least the pursuit of what he calls "strange goddesses." He explains the situation from [...]
Mary Beard’s Women & Power
I’ve just read a tiny hardcover book called Women & Power: A Manifesto by the celebrity classics scholar Mary Beard. It consists of two edited speeches with black-and-white illustrations (I’ve pulled the color versions of [...]
Remembering Rosemary Goad of Faber & Faber
Rosemary Goad, the first woman to become a director of Faber & Faber, died in October (obituary here, paywalled). I originally planned to go to the memorial service on 17 December with one of her [...]
Rio +20, World +20, Karen +20
2012 is a year of environmental anniversaries: 20 years since the first Rio Conference, 25 years since Our Common Future (known as the Brundtland Report) gave the world a definition of sustainability, and 50 years [...]