Dana Rail
@danarail.substack.com
Scribbling bibliophile over at #BibliollCollege: https://bibliollcollege.substack.com. 💙📚 Writer of speculative fiction with #DarkAcademia / #Arthurian themes. I love books, music & the city of #Oxford. Blessed with the coolest family on the planet.
My latest (free) Dispatch from Biblioll College is a tour of the writing space/"room-of-my -own", a converted 8 x 10 garden shed I call "the Birdhouse". bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to ‘The Birdhouse’
Dana takes you on a tour of a “room of her own”.
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Our latest Dispatch from Biblioll College! I'm especially eager to read the last book on the list. bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/twelve-boo...
Twelve Books to Read if You Like Greek & Roman Mythology
Exploring the Literary Roots of Western Civilisation
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In my latest Dispatch from Biblioll College, I get up close in personal with a masterpiece: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-knight...
The Knight, Death, and the Devil, up close and personal
The privilege of experiencing a great work of art at close range.
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Boze's latest (and sobering) Dispatch from Biblioll College: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/what-we-lo...
What We Lose When We Lose Literacy
The Road to Civilisational Ruin
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My kids picked up this little gem for me from a local library book sale…for a buck! I've read a lot of Waugh, but didn't know he'd written a book on Rossetti. Another title to add to my TBR pile for my“Oxford Project” for our Biblioll College substack. 💙📚 #booksky
I love that Matthew Rhys got nommed thrice for THE BEAST IN ME and WIDOW'S BAY bothe, and that all three leads in the latter, plus the show itself (which we thoroughly enjoyed) were nommed, and in the Comedy series category no less. www.thewrap.com/industry-new...
Matthew Rhys Is First Lead Actor to Score Double Emmy Nominations Since 1995
Matthew Rhys, star of "Widow's Bay" and "The Beast in Me," is the first male actor to earn this distinction this century
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The library delivers, I’m spoilt for books, Stacked on the table, Piled upon nooks, Crafting and cooking, Travel and tales, I even have books, That I brought in the sales, I can’t get enough, Please do not condemn, I’m sure maybe someday, I’ll read all of them. #thingstowriteabout books
My Better Half's first Dispatch from Biblioll College! bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/scotus-the...
Scotus, “the rarest-veined unraveller”
An Intriguing Journey with Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Rach's latest Dispatch from Biblioll College brings back fond memories of a damp basement, long hours at self-employed work, and hours and hours and hours of fantastic audiobook listening. bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/my-fifteen...
My Fifteen Favorite Audiobook Narrators
A Celebration of Audiobooks
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Boze's latest Dispatch from Biblioll College, on the Fitzgerald translation of the Rubaiyat: bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-iconic...
The Iconic Victorian Poem That Haunted Me as a Child
"We are no other than a moving-row / Of magic shadow-shapes that come and go"
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My latest Dispatch from Biblioll College, about my "Oxford Project". #Tolkien #Oxford bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/a-syllabus...
A Syllabus for my 2026 Oxford Project
Pulling on the threads that connect such Oxford luminaries as Newman, Ruskin, Morris, and Tolkien.
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Good heavens, what a busy busy month at Biblioll College, trying to keep Aloysius in good humour! bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/biblioll-c...
Biblioll College's Monthly Miscellany No. 15
Notes and highlights from May 2026
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Son-in-law Boze Herrington has written a lovely review for @plough.bsky.social of a gorgeous and important book by @malcolmguite.bsky.social. A fragrant and healing balm for our Wasteland. www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
Galahad and the Grail
Poet Malcolm Guite retells the Authurian legend in verse. Do stories like this have the power to revive a dying world?
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#OnThisDay - 26 May - in AD 735 the Venerable Bede died at Jarrow, Northumbria. Theologian, grammarian, historian - perhaps his most-admired work is his 'Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation'. #Bede Image: Cotton MS Tiberius C II, f. 5v. Link - blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
He will always be "Gandalf" to me, but I was also fortunate to see him live on stage as an unforgettably pitable and funny and roguish Falstaff in PLAYER KINGS back in 2024. Happy 87th, Sir Ian McKellen! May you still be around for an eleventy-first! (If anyone could, I think it would be you!)
Picked up a volume of John Masefield's Poems recently. Having never read him before, I turned randomly to this page, read the poem "Lollingdon Downs", and instantly thought, "Mr. Masefield, where have you been all my life?" Just wonderful. #Poetry
I love this! #Tolkien. You can download the entire English version of the encyclical here: www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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DawnTreader@loherangrin.bsky.social · 3mo agoAs a Tolkien fan, love this. #MagnificaHumanitas
@johngarthwriter.bsky.social Sorry to contact you this way, but I'm trying to order your TOLKIEN AT EXETER COLLEGE book from your website, and no matter which browser/device I use, I cannot get past your spam filter to the checkout page. I'm in the US. Is there any other way to order?
Boze's latest dispatch from Biblioll College. Given the title of our substack, I'm shocked—SHOCKED—he hasn't read the Hardy yet! bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/forty-five...
Forty-Five Classic Books I Haven't Yet Read, But Must
Putting Together a Long-Term TBR
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Pope Leo warns against AI in war, tells students they are 'not an algorithm.' The pope's comments come just before he is expected to release his first encyclical, focused on AI ...Via NCR in Rome... #PopeLeo #AI #technology www.ncronline.org/vatican/pope...
Pope Leo warns against AI in war, tells students they are 'not an algorithm'
"This very spiritual malaise of many young people reminds us that we are not the sum of what we have, nor matter randomly assembled in a mute cosmos," the pope said May 14. "We are a desire, not an al...
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My latest little Oxonian bit on Dispatches from Biblioll College. #Oxford bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/lock-a-mon...
"Lock": A Month in Oxford in English Words
Part 2 of a Series
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There are some tough ones in here--I expect no less from Boze--but way fun! bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/cultural-l...
Cultural Literacy Quiz 02: How Culturally Literate Are You?
The Second Installment in an Ongoing Series
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It was a gorgeous, productive month at Biblioll College! bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/biblioll-c...
Biblioll College’s Monthly Miscellany No. 14
Notes and highlights from April 2026
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