Can you change “100” to “CAT” by moving just two of these toothpicks? The above puzzle is probably familiar to many lovers of logic games, but new to the multitude… [read full post]
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“A symbolic retreat from the disappointment of reality”
Why do adults read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? One Cambridge academic thinks is might be “a symbolic retreat from the disappointment of reality.” Really? Really? In yesterday’s online edition of the… [read full post]
Yours, virtually, for free: the original Under Ground manuscript
The British Library has a new project: high-definition images of their most precious manuscripts available for download by one and all. These eBook Treasures are viewed in a virtual “3D”… [read full post]
Alice’s American Cousin: Joyce Carol Oates
See if you can’t dig up a copy of the August 2011 Princeton Magazine. There’s a good cover feature by Stuart Mitchner called “Alice’s American Cousin,” about author Joyce Carol… [read full post]
Read all about it: Dame Gillian’s lecture on “Alice in Time”
In the last edition of the Knight Letter we noted that Dame Gillian Beer, King Edward Professor of English Literature Emeritus at Cambridge, had delivered a lecture entitled “Alice in Time”… [read full post]
New Scientist: “Some words really do evoke Humpty’s ‘handsome’ rotundity.”
Linguists have been ruminating on Humpy Dumpty’s theories for over a century. Now, his discussion about words’ meaning is being used by scientists in conjunction with new studies about an… [read full post]
New LCSNA Martin Gardner Tribute Book Just Released!
Callooh! Callay!! We are delighted to announce that the LCSNA has just published a frabjous new book paying tribute to the late, great Martin Gardner–columnist, philosopher, polymath, magician, religious thinker, and author… [read full post]
Rethinking Maps: “…Without the least vestige of land”
How do you like front cover for the new paperback edition of Rethinking Maps: New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory? (Routledge, $44.95, greatly reduced from the $150.00 hardcover edition.) It pays homage… [read full post]
Alberto Manguel’s Return to Wonderland
Check out the summer 2011 Threepenny Review, out of Berkeley, California. There is an article by Argentinian author Alberto Manguel called “Return to Wonderland,” which is also online as a… [read full post]
Lewis Carroll articles in the Journal of the Arthur Rackham Society
Arthur Rackham illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1907. Our friends over at the Arthur Rackham Society have a few articles about Carroll in the April 2011 issue, No. 45,… [read full post]