literature, visual art, music and film
Playing with Fire by Arthur Conan Doyle PLAYING WITH FIRE I cannot pretend to say what occurred on the 14th of April last at No. 17, Badderly Gardens. Put down in black and white, my surmise might seem too crude, too grotesque, for serious consideration. And yet that something did occur, and that it was […]
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The Pharaoh’s Cat by Maria Luisa Lang
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This week’s painting is Max Ernst’s Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale.
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The Pharaoh’s Cat by Maria Luisa Lang The Pharaoh’s Cat, a tragicomic fantasy narrated in the present tense by the cat himself, tells of a free-spirited, wise-cracking stray in ancient Egypt who suddenly acquires human powers and immediately captivates the young Pharaoh, making him laugh for the first time since his parents’ death. The cat […]
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This week’s Tuesday doodle comes from Yves Tanguy.
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David has very kindly agreed to give away a signed copy to three lucky Examining the Odd readers!
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I recently reviewed David Smith’s Love in Lindfield and I’ve just finished his Letters to Strabo. Although the former was a fun read, the latter is definitely more my style and I really enjoyed the adventure. As Finn’s mother dies, he promises that he’ll find out what really happened to his father, a man Finn […]
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