Jackpot

Free access to Siegfried Sassoon's war notebooks, courtesy of the University of Cambridge.

Cambridge finals students flummoxed

by South African poem with no words.

In the circumstances, I would like to know how many of them addressed the likelihood that Koos Kombuis's 'Tipp-Ex-Sonate' is probably also in translation...

[Baie dankie to Alexandra Coghlan, for the tip-ex-off]

How Literature works

After the fateful day in 1929 when Virginia Woolf was prevented from walking across the lawn at Cambridge, any instance of an inquisitive woman being stopped by a beadle anywhere and under any circumstances is a reference to Woolf.

- Sofi Thanhauser, 'Hustler Scholars', Wag's Revue