Almanac

Katie Gramich is a senior lecturer in English at Cardiff University in Wales.

Even more sensational is the new information discovered by Sheila Savill in her painstaking examination of birth and marriage certificates and other public records relating to R. S.'s family, especially his mother. Meanwhile, the American scholar, David Paddy, compares R. S with his Irish contemporary, Samuel Beckett, and comes up with some surprising new insights into the work of these two gloomy giants of modern literature.