Welcome To Arts & Literature where we try to answer questions of a scholarly nature.
If you are looking for information about books then head to Books & Authors. The Arts section covers all sorts of topics like theatre, exhibitions, paintings and much more.
I have seen some delightful posters for pug orange juice and know they are vintage. I was wondering if anyone would know the history of this beverage. thanks!!!!
Can you give me some examples of using the word 'ell'? It is quite an old word and it's not so well explained in dictionaries. I found it in a book by Frederick Douglass who quoted somebody else: "If...
When I was a teenager (in the 80s) I read a book, can't remember the title or author, but it was American and was narrated by a teenage girl whose sister was dying of cance. I have a feeling that she...
I am seriously thinking of buying The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (it sounds very cool and amazing)and wanted to know if there are any controversial subjects in it. like (speacially) anyting about...
Some time ago I read a book, I can't find it anymore and suspect it has been lost, I don't remember the name or the author, but if someone can provide me with either, or ideally an ISBN that would bee...
What is the correct way to say 'jalapeno'. As in the pepper. I always pronounce the J as an H but here in Hull the lovely folks in Subway and other sandwich shops always say the J and my asking for...
On 27/04/07 I read an article in either The Mirror or The Sun about a Crime Writer and meant to make a note of his name but was discted, his first name was James and he had a Male Sleuth whose books...
I know that this is a longshot but i was watching the apprentice last night and I fell in love with the Lip Artwork designed by Elizabeth Hoff. Does anyone know where i can buy this artwork, or any...
Sorry to put this question here, but I can't find a television topic. Does anyone know if the tv programme The High Chaparral was ever known as "The Green Chaparral"? It was referred to as this in a...
i have seen a black&white picture/poster and need to know the name of it. it is of about 12 men sitting on a steel bolder eating there lunch,over looking new york. i think that they may have been...
Does anyone know a poem written from the perspective of an old lady dying in hospital. I only remember a line that went something like "look at me nurse and what do you see?" The poem went on to say...
i read a book while i was in junior school about a little boy who was a bit of an outsider from the other boys but he raced them on his home made go cart with the numberplate EGDAM which turned out to...
Raising to a higher level or viewing things from a different perspective I imagine. I'm very interested in opinions, and artists who use stairs as an icon in thier work. Thanks
Hello, I work in a library and a colleague has had a request for a list of any new horror and science fiction writers out there. They need to be authors that aren't already well known and have...