'Guest Post' by Copernicus

Who's that poking their heads over the half door and the twilight as purple in the western sky as the heather on the bog? Come in, come in, musha, and settle ye about the hearth. …

'Guest Post' by Copernicus

Before I go to bed at night, having replenished the horn of nerdom with a couple of Star Trek episodes, I pause before the bookshelves in the hall, pluck from them a random volume and, …

'Guest Post' by Copernicus

Fústar.org was lately memed by freestater who closed his eyes as tight as tight could be, clicked the heels of his dainty red slippers and wished with all his might for a post on why …

'Guest Post' by Copernicus

I enjoy taking a certain immoderately smug view of myself predicated on a few pleasing cultural tropes. I have browsed intelligently among the moderns and the postmoderns, committed to memory verses both metered and …

'Guest Post' by Copernicus

Like the French placard which, Roger Chartier has observed, has been 'long neglected by a history interested only in more noble objects', the broadside is the Cinderella publication of early modern Ireland.Kelly, James. Gallows Speeches from …

'Guest Post' by Copernicus

It's the most wonderful time of the year…for some.

While Stephen's Day is now upon us, it is still not too late to impart to fústarers something of the sinister side of the holidays. Depending …

'Guest Post' by Copernicus (follow up to 17th December entry)

Revealing article on the wonderful world of the art heist in the Guardian arts pages yesterday detailing the tale of intrigue behind the Tate's recovery of …