Women in Trousers
Charlotte Bach
I recently discovered Charlotte Bach thanks to Francis Wheen's book about her. Her main living disciple is a man called Mike Roth, whose 1983 Bolt from a Bleeding Sky I have a copy of. Expect to hear more in coming weeks.
Rays from the Capstone
Voynich manuscript partially decoded?
A Professor in Applied Linguistics believes he has decoded a few words from the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, a 600-year old work that has baffled scholars for the last hundred years.
Ann Morgan's Love: a pedestrian poem by Arthur Munby
Ann Morgan's Love is a verse depiction of Victorian poet Arthur Munby's own secret marriage with his serving maid, Hannah Cullwick. Munby was obsessed with big, literally dirty, working-class women, making them the subjects of many photographs and sketches. When he died, he left behind a box "not to be opened until 1950".
My 10 Weirdest Books
Of all the books reviewed on the site, here's my personal Top Ten Weirdest. You won't find these on any bestseller list.
Toeing life
Xinn Lin writes poetry inspired by her own six-toedness.