“Happiness is not complete without a goat playing the violin”: I found the above translation of this quote from ‘Notting Hill’ as I was...

I was going to start this blog with an excursus of my life as keeper of a diary, and maybe I will write about my life as the keeper of a...

I just came back from a conversation organised by Blackwell’s between Philip Pullman and Kathrine Rundall at the Sheldonian theatre. I am...

Last week I watched ‘Out of Africa’. I read the book when I was around fifteen, I think, so (seven years later!) I do not remember much...