Just recently, my 7-year-old grandson, Ryan, thoughtfully announced, “It’s hard to spend a day without smiling.” That’s particularly true for any day in which one reads certain works by the Oxford ...

The city celebrates the first telling of Alice's story every year on the first Saturday in July.

Some of my friends would call my old friend a fascist and some of hers would call me a communist. Not that she’s close to being a fascist or I to being a communist. People aren’t always good at ...

Alice gets a musical-theatre belter, the ‘Drink Me’ Bottle performs soprano acrobatics and the Caterpillar smokes his hookah like Audrey Hepburn ...

"Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the ...

“Yellow Submarine” was written by McCartney and Lennon, and featured contributions from Scottish musician Donovan. The Revolver track was The Beatles’ attempt at creating a children’s song, and ...

In a post dated May 26, 2024, the Facebook account Philosophical Rhythms shared an image featuring a quote attributed to Lewis Carroll, the author best known for the 1865 book "Alice's Adventures in ...

In 1879, Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, published an odd little book called Euclid and his Modern Rivals (available for free at the Internet Archive). The object of this little book ...

A medley of games, riddles, rhymes and number problems, “Lewis Carroll’s Guide for Insomniacs” is the perfect companion for the wee hours when sleep won’t come. Adorned with a sprightly new ...