An absolute cornucopia of truly memorable illustrated editions have recently come our way, many of them discoveries of Adriana Peliano of the LCSBrazil. A few are newly published; some older… [read full post]
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Alice in Wonderland
The Tricycle Down the Rabbit Hole
Fedde Benedictus’s site “The Tricycle Down the Rabbit Hole” contains musings on various topics from the perspective of a philosopher of physics. His “Numbers in Wonderland” thread has five episodes… [read full post]
Alico en Mirlando (Esperanto)
A new edition of La aventuroj de Alico en Mirlando (Wonderland in Esperanto) has been published by the Esperanto-Asocio de Britio. Illuminated by the fantastic Chris Riddell illustrations, the text… [read full post]
“Let’s Go Crazy” (Sing 2)
Sing 2, the excellent sequel to the very popular animated musical Sing, opens with a shot of Meera, the teenage elephant (Tori Kelly), who runs through a forest, trips and… [read full post]
Paper Magic!
Laetitia Miéral is a paper magician living in Saint-Etienne, France, whose site Wonders on Paper (Merveilles en Papier) contains several Alice projects. Check out her Alice in Wonderland collection and… [read full post]
“…for I never was so small as this before, never!”
The goal of the Tiny Alice Project was to produce the smallest ever reproduction of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with letters measuring in nanometers. And they succeeded! The project was… [read full post]
Philip Glass Ballet “Alice” Now Online
“The French company Opéra national du Rhin Ballet premiered Alice Feb. 11–13, 2022, in Mulhouse, and Feb. 18–19 in Strasbourg. ‘With a new score by Philip Glass, a figurehead of… [read full post]
Dalí Alice in Korean
The publisher Moonye has released the Princeton University Press version of Alice with the Dalí illustrations (이상한 나라의 앨리스: 살바도르 달리 에디션) in a translation into Korean by Soon-yung Lee… [read full post]
Gerald Barry Opera Now on CD
Gerald Barry’s hour-long surreal opera Alice’s Adventures under Ground was composed in 2016. The world premiere concert performance took place in LA and a week later in London (KL 98:39)…. [read full post]
“Alice, who always took a great interest in questions …”
In 2016, data visualizer Nicholas Rougeux extracted everything but the punctuation in Wonderland and made a fine poster thereof. Now Clive Thompson has created similar software that extracts only the… [read full post]