links for 2008-12-23

  • Is the American publishing industry in meltdown? And what does this mean for readers and writers over the next few years?
    (tags: Publishing)
  • Max Hastings salutes one of the greatest writers in English: "Jeeves provides a sheet anchor of sanity around which the rest of a cast of imbeciles can be made to dance, just as soldiers are taught always to manoeuvre their troops around a fixed point… I read my eight or nine favourites on an annual cycle, turning to them when nothing else can re-vive flagging spirits, and when if not actually disgruntled I am far from being gruntled."
  • Intense and scholarly review of a new book about this most-discussed of Roman cities by the eminent classicist and academic Mary Beard.
  • Review of a new novel by Jean-Pierre Ohl with a Dickensian theme – intriguingly referred to as "an intertextual box of tricks". A step up for Jasper Fforde readers?
  • An engaging review of a new book by Michael Holroyd exploring the dramatic lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irvine and their descendants – a clan that includes Edward Gordon Craig and Sir John Gielgud. A must-read for all interested in the theatre.

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