classics – Reading and Viewing the World: Books, Film and Art

Reading and Viewing the World: Books, Film and Art

There's a whole world out there! I'm an experienced editor and UK-based arts obsessive doing an off-duty project to look at at least two books, a film and an artist from each country in the world. Reviews are SPOILER FREE. New posts regularly. See Archive/Links by country for my recommendations and to track my progress. Started Aug. 2019.

Review no 103: stories by Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), and My Katherine Mansfield Project by Kirsty Gunn (New Zealand)

Exceptional, highly influential writing from New Zealand

Review no 38: Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75), The Snow Queen and other stories (Denmark)

EUROPE What better choice for Christmas Eve than a cold, seasonal fairy tale from that master of the form, Hans Christian Andersen? When I was very young, we used to visit my grandparents, and in the evening I would be put to bed with a selection of the few children’s books that my grandmother kept […]