When I spoke to Jesse Ball, the author of A Cure for Suicide, he forged into the dense, alliterative groves of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.” Carroll’s poem famously relies on a strange, idiosyncratic ...

Neil Gaiman agreed to perform Lewis Carroll’s nonsensical poem, “Jabberwocky,” if donors could hit $600,000 in contributions to Worldbuilders, a Wisconsin-based charity launched by Gaiman’s fellow ...