Moment at Maubeuge
It is 1914. Maurice Baring writes of a tremendous moment at Maubeuge, seeing the arriving British troops come swinging…
Triple Vintage Bohemia
Poet and Jazz musician writes an essay on seven decades of London Bohemia
The Enchanted Guest of Spring and Summer
When Dorothy Richardson told people in the nursing home in which she died in 18th June 1957 that she…
Reece Mews: Conversation Piece
Don’t worry. I’ll send the bill to Miss Beeston. She quite likes you, which is unusual, as she only…
A Month by the Sea
A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza, Dervla Murphy, Eland Publishing Ltd, 224pp, £16.99 (hardback) When the great…
Where are our Modern Day Ciceros?
Daniel Finkelstein wrote an interesting article in The Times recently suggesting that Barack Obama was a great deliverer of…
Europe: The View from a Homeless Shelter
I finally reached the Berlin Wall at daybreak, just as the lamps above it all went out. By mid-morning…
Christmas 1142
Good Henry’s mother is leaving, lowered by a rope from a castle wall, barefoot into the snowy night. …
‘The Remains of the Day’: Ishiguro’s Jamesian Novel
‘Live while you can; it’s a mistake not to.’ -Henry James, The Ambassadors I Henry James was born in…
Candles for Corinne
I’ve lost my story. Do you have one spare or know where I can find one? I’d pay good…
Duchamp’s Demolition Job
If you go to the Barbican before June 9, you can see some extraordinary things. The most extraordinary of…
The Responsibilities of Historical Fiction
Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident, Sceptre, 368pp, £16.99 (hardback) Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies, Fourth Estate, 411pp, £20…
Gunslinger Redux
Edward Dorn: Collected Poems, edited by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, Carcanet, 1000pp, £25 (paperback) Westward Haut, Edward Dorn, Etruscan Books,…
Manet and Picasso
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Time of Useful Consciousness
Time of Useful Consciousness, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, New Directions, 96pp, £14.50 (hardback) Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poetry has outsold his contemporaries. And…
Ancient Flints or Tinned Food
Rome on the Euphrates: The Story of a Frontier, by Freya Stark, Murray/Tauris, 528pp, £12.99 (paperback) When Dame Freya…
A British Original
Edward Lucie-Smith discusses the work of one Young British Artist, Outsider artist Joe Machine.
Vessels in White and Black
Gordon Baldwin is one of Britain’s most assured and original artists. He is thought of as a potter, but…
Loving Turgenev
In 1881, while visiting Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-83) joined in the birthday merrymaking, much to…
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