Early Arrival
She came a mite early by the calendar, fuelling gossip and glee in spiteful eyes, an autumn surprise for…
At White Cube
The Norfolk beaches of my childhood must have been a state of grace. Within that monochrome and windy bowl…
The Life of the Author: Roland Barthes’s China Tour
Travels in China, by Roland Barthes, translated by Andrew Brown, edited by Anne Herschberg Pierrot, Polity, 196pp, £16.99 (hardback)…
Holland House
Holland House: A History of London’s Most Celebrated Salon, Linda Kelly, IB Tauris, 288pp, £25 (hardback) Nearly two centuries…
Tarantula’s Web
Tarantula’s Web: John Hayward, T. S. Eliot and their Circle, John Smart, Michael Russell, 343pp, £19.95 (hardback) How unpleasant…
The Infatuations
The Infatuations, Javier Marías, Hamish Hamilton, 352pp, £18.99 (hardback) Early into The Infatuations, Javier Marías’s long awaited new novel,…
Altered States
The Sins of the Leopard, James Brookes, Salt Publishing, 70pp, £12.95 (hardback) Harm’s Way, Conor Carville, Dedalus Press, 76pp,…
The Return of a King
The Return of a King, William Dalrymple, Bloomsbury, 608pp, £25 (hardback) In the summer of 1990, at the end…
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…
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