Who on earth was William Gilbert?
Michael Caines on the little-known romantic William Gilbert, a \u201cman of fine genius\u201d (according to William Wordsworth) who had \u201cunfortunately received a few rays of supernatural light through a crack in his upper story\u201d; Daniel Beer tells the tale of the Gulag at Solovki, a converted monastery known as \u201cthe Paris of the Northern concentration camps\u201d, a place of brutality but also of resistant culture and ideas; finally, Laurence Scott considers the cultural history of shoeshining, from Dickens to Police Squad
Books
William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism by Paul Cheshire
Intellectual Life and Literature at Solovki, 1923\u20131930: The Paris of the northern concentration camps by Andrea Gullotta
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