A Subjective Magic: Jenny Boully’s Betwixt-and-Between
Boully splays open her own torso and readers divine what they need to from the spill of her organs.
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Posts Tagged: Lewis Carroll
First Edition of Alice in Wonderland Worth Millions
Alice in Wonderland remains one of the most beloved pieces of children’s literature, leaving its first editions truly a treasure for book collectors everywhere. Now, a first edition is going up to auction, and it’s expected to sell for an astounding two to three million dollars.
...moreHumpty Dumpty, the Original Mansplainer
I can explain all the poems that were ever invented—and a good many that haven’t been invented yet. No, that’s not the obnoxious guy from your Wallace Stevens seminar—that’s Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty, explaining “Jabberwocky” to Alice. Let Evan Kindley take you down the rabbit hole of literary annotation over at The New Republic—and for […]
...moreCharles Dickens is a Tattle-Tale
Get ready for the biggest piece of gossip to hit the Victorian litmag scene in 250 years. Lewis Carroll, Wilkie Collins, and Elizabeth Gaskell all wrote anonymously for Charles Dickens’s periodical—but that anonymity may have been short-lived. (Well, sort of.) In a reveal heralded as “the Rosetta Stone of Victorian studies,” a book dealer found […]
...moreThe Wonderland of Imagination
Who are you?’ Isn’t this what every book asks of us as we chase its characters, trying to find out what they are reluctant to reveal? Is it not also the one essential thing we ask ourselves as human beings, as we struggle to make the choices that will define us? I can describe myself […]
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FUNNY WOMEN #130: Practice Test for Tweens
…educators have finally rolled out a new curriculum that they believe will be more exciting and relevant to various groups of young learners. Like this practice test for tweens!!
...moreThe Mystery and Controversy of Lewis Carroll
In fact, as far as his daily life went, “Lewis Carroll” was a complete non-person. Charles was always known personally only by his real name, letters directed to the pseudonym were returned unanswered, and he would walk away if strangers dared to mention “Alice” in his presence. For The Public Domain Review, Jenny Wolff examines […]
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HORN! REVIEWS: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Another wonderful illustrated review from HORN!
...moreWho Still Reads Alice in Wonderland?
For the New Yorker, Anthony Lane reviews Robert Douglas Fairhurst’s The Story of Alice, tracing the cultural importance of the “peppery briskness” of Lewis Carroll’s words.
...moreThe Beatles and Literature, Literature and The Beatles
The title of “I am the Walrus” also nods emphatically to Carroll’s poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter” — specifically to the walrus character, who expresses his remorse after devouring helpless oysters by crying at the poem’s end. Lennon confessed in an interview with Playboy that he felt they should have instead sided with the […]
...moreDalí in Wonderland
In a 1969 “collaboration of epic proportion,” Maecenas Press-Random House published an edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, illustrated by Salvador Dalí. While the price of the actual book is $12,900, you can peruse the illustrations here for free.
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