Sir Henry Rider Haggard was not a great artist in anyone's estimation, least of all his own. Still less was he a great writer of short fiction; one seeks in vain for his name in critical surveys of the short story of the nineteenth or early twentieth cen...
A man of diverse talents and a writer eager to try his skills at many different kinds of writing projects, both nonfiction and fiction, H. Rider Haggard is best remembered by general readers of fantasy for his fourth and fifth books, King Solomon's Mines...
Henry Rider Haggard, K.B.E., wrote tales of romantic adventure which may be termed "mysteries" only in a nonconventional sense of the term. The reader encounters no Poirots, no Lord Peter Wimseys, no clues; and while there are murders aplenty, they are n...
Using highly articulated automatons modeled on herself and her female relatives, sculptor Elizabeth King invites us to consider how consciousness arises from physical being. In photographs, stop-action films and videos, she portrays her mechanical surrogates as convincingly self-ware, while we are left to ponder...
King Leopold's Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild Macmillan 22.50 [pounds sterling] 366pp ISBN 0-333-66126-5 AMONG REGIMES OF TERROR imposed by stronger powers over weaker peoples, the rule of Belgium's King Leopold II in...
