Lewis Carroll

Alice -- Victoria!

C. M. Rubin | Posted 05.27.2012

C. M. Rubin

Welcome to the 2012 Victorian Extravaganza in Llandudno, the largest street entertainment event in Wales. My Dearest Cousin Anne, Have been invited...

Alice -- Tea?

C. M. Rubin | Posted 05.14.2012

C. M. Rubin

I fell down a rabbit hole in search of a tea party for 1,000 children and a world record jam tart eating attempt. Down down down I went... until suddenly -- thump!

Alice, Is This Cool?

C. M. Rubin | Posted 04.30.2012

C. M. Rubin

Their big picture concept? A visual spectacle such as has never been seen before in any other attraction in the UK. So what might Alice Liddell have said about these creative upgrades to her favorite story in her summer vacation town?

Alice -- Meet Alice

C. M. Rubin | Posted 04.19.2012

C. M. Rubin

"Magic, beauty, color, amusement, character, intrigue, questions, excitement, puzzlement, amazement, fear, suspense, fun and a happy ending" are the reasons why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is still a classic today.

Kusama In Wonderland

Posted 04.18.2012

"I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland." So begins Yayoi Kusama's visionary take on Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", the iconic tale of a...

Alice -- May 4, 2012

C. M. Rubin | Posted 04.13.2012

C. M. Rubin

Everybody' s got Alice fever in Alice town -- Llandudno, Wales -- but no one is as curious or as excited as me!

"The Jungle Book"... Where Books Are Seen

Posted 03.05.2012

Although we spend hours looking at books, we rarely acknowledge their physicality, especially if we're reading something on a Kindle. Natasha Bowdoin ...

When Are We Old?

Alan Elsner | Posted 04.25.2012

Alan Elsner

The advent of another birthday recently prompted me to ask myself: At what age does a person stop getting older and actually become old? In other words, when does old age begin?

Alice in Italy

C. M. Rubin | Posted 04.24.2012

C. M. Rubin

Alice In Wonderland is the first exhibition to comprehensively focus on Lewis Carroll's classic "Alice" books and their enormous influence on the world of visual arts from the first publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 to the present day.

Studying At Oxford Is A Great Excuse To Visit Oxford

Pam Grout | Posted 03.27.2012

Pam Grout

Oxford is a medieval dreamland, a time warp of sorts, where everything from winding cobblestone lanes to impeccably manicured gardens is ancient and historical.

Alice -- In Wales?

C. M. Rubin | Posted 03.17.2012

C. M. Rubin

When my daughter and I were creating our book, The Real Alice in Wonderland, about our relative Alice Liddell, we spent time researching Llandudno's long connection to Alice Liddell and her family.

Alice in Wonderland Revisited

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 02.26.2012

Evelyne Politanoff

A journey through 150 years of one of the most imaginative sources of inspiration ever: Alice in Wonderland.

Alice

C. M. Rubin | Posted 02.04.2012

C. M. Rubin

In the year 2143, will we be able to say Harry Potter lives, Harry Potter is global, or even that Harry Potter's enduring legacy continues to inspire all age groups? There is one book we can say that about today.

How Will We Read? - The Book Given

C. M. Rubin | Posted 12.26.2011

C. M. Rubin

On November 26, 1864, Lewis Carroll gave my relative, Alice Pleasance Liddell, a book he had written for her. He called the book Alice's Adventures Underground.

14 Incredible Fictional Worlds You'd Most Want to Visit (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.01.2011

Some people dream of visiting India or Brazil -- other people have loftier, if not impossible, travel ambitions. With the summer travel season in ...

Freedom: What Do July 4th and Alice in Wonderland Have in Common?

C. M. Rubin | Posted 08.31.2011

C. M. Rubin

July 4, 1862 is also known to many as Alice in Wonderland Day, the day that commemorates Lewis Carroll's first telling of the famous children's story to his young inspiration, Alice Liddell.

PHOTOS: 9 Reasons Why You Should Use a Pseudonym

Carmela Ciuraru | Posted 08.20.2011

Carmela Ciuraru

It's true that George Eliot and Charlotte Bronte used male pen names so that their work would be taken seriously (and so they could publish at all).

Lewis Carroll Turns an Albatross Into a Postage Stamp

Carolyn Vega | Posted 08.07.2011

Carolyn Vega

Tonally Inappropriate Book Covers

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.06.2011

Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but um, we kind of do it all the time. In fact, half the fun of that anachroni...

Alice In Medicareland: One Voucher Makes You Larger...

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 07.06.2011

Richard (RJ) Eskow

"If I had a world of my own," said Alice, "everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't." Th...

Stage Door: Wonderland

Fern Siegel | Posted 06.21.2011

Fern Siegel

You know you're in trouble in Wonderland when the animated curtain is the most sophisticated part of the Broadway production.

Books You Can Eat

masslive.com | Posted 06.04.2011

Charles Frazier's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Cold Mountain" is a fiddle made of fruitcake and pecans. At least that's how Marianne Moriarty of N...

50 Books Every Child Should Read

The Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Education Secretary Michael Gove says that children aged 11 should be reading 50 books a year to improve literacy standards. We asked three of Brit...

Gatsby, Winter Carnival, and Me

Lonna Saunders | Posted 05.25.2011

Lonna Saunders

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick Carraway remarks, "You can't repeat the past." To which Jay Gatsby replied, "You can't repeat the past? Why of course, you can."

DVDs: The Tillman Story Is F-ing Good!

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Giltz

THE TILLMAN STORY ($30.95 BluRay or $24.95 regular DVD; Sony) -- What makes a true patriot? Is it blind devotion? My country right or wrong? Or is t...