Stephen’s Reviews > The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman: Including The Brother > Status Update

When I bought this volume I must admit I didn't know exactly what I was getting into. I had heard of Flann O'Brien but had never read any of his works. So I was unprepared for this collections of his columns from the Irish Times, each of which, no more than a page each or at most a bit longer, consists of a literary pun. Many based on a Latin phrase current when written from the 1940s until his death in 1966.