Royalty and Honour at War and Peace
When the dust, smoke and cordite cleared over no-man’s-land following the infamous Somme Offensive of July-September 1916, the German Commander…
The Origins of Tom & Jerry
Today Tom and Jerry are familiar to us as the famous cat and mouse cartoon but to the nineteenth-century reader…
T. E. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence & Lady Chatterley’s Lover
In an enigmatic episode in Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) Connie tells her father that before the Great War her lover…
A Different Sort of Provocation
This January I moved from a flat in central Exeter to a wooden house in the Loire Valley. I’ve replaced…
Real Texts versus the Duller Page
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: An Original-Spelling Text, ed. Paul Hammond, Oxford University Press, 2016, 494pp, £19.99 (paperback) John Donne, ed. Janel…
Twilight of the Idols
Inside the head of Bruno Schulz, by Maxim Biller translated by Anthea Bell, Pushkin Press, 2015, 128 pp. £10 Summer…
Under the Stars
Federico Beltran Masses: Under the Stars, Stair Sainty Gallery, London, February 10 – March 24, 2016 ‘I arrive in London…
Polyphemus
There were good Cyclopes, and had this particular Cyclops not turned mean after decades of living alone in the…
Pictish Beast
There is a beast swimming in the belly of the earth, crouched in the salt-water of waiting. It slithered…
Response to Finding a Fossil at Writhlington Coal Batches
A Fossil (a Fern) on Writhlington Batches Re-Take (Pt.II) Time not as we know it but another time quite skilled…
Raw Colour in Dulwich
Painting Norway: Nikolai Astrup, Dulwich Picture Gallery, until 15 May 2016 I wished . . . to wash myself in…
In the Corridor & other poems
In the Fall “You’re not going in there – ?” I turned but there was no passage on waking.…
Libertarian Disposition
The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918, D. J. Taylor, Chatto & Windus, 528pp, 2016, £25 (hardcover)…
The Last Hangman
An Extract. His signature trick was to light a cheroot, and to leave it In the condemned cell’s ashtray…
Masterplan
I will not travel tonight. Toward dawn a star In Andromeda will abruptly Die, but the world and his…
The Potency of Myth
James Connolly: My Search for the Man, the Myth and His Legacy by Sean O’Callaghan, Century, 336pp, £18.99 (hardback) Sean…
Fascicle 41
Winner of The London Magazine Short Story Competition 2016. Sometime between 1858 and 1864, Emily Dickinson embarked upon her self-publishing…
Resonant Quality
Openwork, Poetry and Prose by André du Bouchet, translated by Paul Auster & Hoyt Rogers, Yale University Press, 368pp,…
Art in the Kitchen Sink
John Bratby: Everything but the Kitchen Sink, including the Kitchen Sink, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, until 17th April, 2016 The past…
Horticultural Flamboyance
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, Royal Academy of Arts, London, until 10th April 2016 ‘Painting the Modern Garden’…
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