More Literary Composites

Back by popular demand, here are some more of Brian Joseph Davis' creepy police identikit software sketches of famous literary characters... Top: Mrs. Danvers from Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Someone advanced from the sea of faces, someone tall and gaunt, dressed in deep black, whose prominent cheekbones and great, hollow eyes gave ... Read More...

Some Key Apps

Those who feared that the passing of Steve Jobs would mean the end of exciting, beautiful, life-changing technology need not despair, for Key Apps are here... Boffins at the Hooting Yard Global Domination Lab, high in the Swiss Alps, are putting the finishing touches to a series of new apps. I ... Read More...

Catherine Brennand’s France

A special treat for Francophiles and lovers of art and architecture... These wonderful images are taken from a new book Catherine Brennand’s France. Catherine was an award-winning water-colourist with a special love of architecture. Diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2002 she continued to paint full time through two courses of chemotherapy before ... Read More...

Review: The Possessed by Elif Batumann

The Possessed is the uncategorisable hit 'memoir' by friend of The Dabbler Elif Batumann. Brit reviewed it here and Elif herself contributed a guest Dabble here. Now Elberry offers his review... This is a pleasing, deceptively readable book, fairly accurately subtitled "Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them". It is a ... Read More...