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“... through their mouths and talk through their noses. They are physiological, existential twisters. Walter Redfern – ‘Puns’ It was always a question of getting on in life, in years. A long way now from our mothers’ simple tontine dreams of being free of factories, corner shops, uncouth docks and home’s accumulating bitternesses; a long way too ...”

“... was the setting of his many novels, and he wrote regularly of local geography and weather. And yet Walter Redfern could say, in 2010, that Giono was ‘not a regional novelist’. It’s an interesting claim and alerts us to all kinds of criss-crossing puzzles. Giono himself wrote: ‘There is a classical Provence. I have never seen it.’ He also said ...”

“... Lurie) and computers. ‘Art’ in particular contains some notable essays, among them Walter Ong on subway graffiti, and the section opens with a splendidly passionate and ambitious piece by Margaret Doody on the revision of the hymnal used by Princeton University Chapel, a booklet called ‘Inconclusive Language Hymns’ which is produced by the ...”

“... the acceptability of correctness. Both of them, however, say a good deal about these wrangles. For Walter Redfern’s Puns and D.J. Enright’s collection on euphemisms, Fair of Speech, are more diverting and diverse than this notice of them can bring home. Redfern’s book teems with instances, with brilliant ...”