About this site

These annotation pages are maintained and edited by Eli Bishop, who wrote about three quarters of the text. Other contributors are listed on the contributors page and are identified in the text by their initials.

This site, of course, does not contain the full text of Riddley Walker itself—which is copyrighted by Russell Hoban—but only excerpts as needed for context and commentary.

The index section was inspired by Some Other World, an extremely thorough and entertaining index compiled by Tom Murphy's literature class for the Tim O'Brien novel The Things They Carried.

If you also like reading obsessive annotations of other books (including Hoban's Turtle Diary), you may like Nitbar.

The software is MediaWiki with various customizations.

The entire contents of this site are copyrighted by the respective authors or, where not otherwise indicated, by Eli Bishop.