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The Strugatsky Brothers, ‘Roadside Picnic Revisited’ (translated by Maksim Knyazhinsky: Job Books 2026)
The Strugatsky brothers’ Roadside Picnic (1972) — made into the 1979 movie Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky — is surely the most famous of the Soviet duo’s many SF novels. It is certainly, by some margin, the brothers’ best-selling and most wide...
Henry James, ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ (1903)
Here’s the opening of Henry James celebrated novella The Beast in the Jungle (1903)
What determined the speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite wit...
The Monster’s Horoscope
The first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) was not illustrated, but the second edition, from 1831, carried this title-page image and this splendid, famous frontispiece. It is an engraving by the English artist Theodor Von Holst...
Hugo’s ‘My Two Daughters’
‘Mes Deux Filles’ (1856)
I have made a translation Hugo’s epic of satiric vitriol, the anti-Napoleon III Les Châtiments (1853)—extraordinarily, this has never before been rendered complete into English. I finished this a little while ago,...
Tumnosity
In a recent essay, Holly Ordway challenges the consensus that has established itself around Tolkien’s dislike of the Narnia novels—namely, that he loathed them with visceral intensity. As she summarises:
Humphrey Carpenter, Tolkien’s off...
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