Few novels truly deserve

Few novels truly deserve the description ‘rollicking’ in the way Mary Novik’s Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail … Read more

Are you saying that

Are you saying that I don’t deserve love just because of the body I’m in? I wouldn’t say that to you. That’s horrible. I wouldn’t do that to you. I deserve love. People like me deserve love because we are human. Gabourey Sidibe

Good work is no

Good work is no done by humble men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking Is what I do worth while? and Am I the … Read more