At the beginning of the last century, a little boy named Nemo was haunted by recurring nightmares of a bizarre and unruly land where the conventions of everyday life were turned upside down. By day, the boy was firmly lodged in the...
Before I read Daniel Karlin’s excellent new book Proust’s English, I had never given a thought to the word “smart” as part of the French lexicon. Either its vogue in French is long passed, as Karlin suggests, or I do not travel in...
