Isaac D’Israeli’s Curious Conservatism
A late Romantic with a taste for the pliable narrative, Benjamin Disraeli played notoriously fast and loose with historical…
Mysterious Disappearances: God, Money and the Musical Banks
Its name in raised stone lettering, at the end of an alleyway off Fleet Street, is all that is…
Thomas Mann’s ‘Disorder and Early Sorrow’: The Wounded Spirit
’Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone. – John Donne In Mann’s ‘Disorder and Early Sorrow’ (1925) the characters…
Othello, the Comedy
An extract from Mr. Foote’s Other Leg: Comedy, Tragedy and Murder in Georgian London (published by Picador, 11 October…
On Arabs and Ignorance
My father nearly died thirteen years before I was born. He was stabbed through the chest while out walking…
To Be a Pilgrim
Pilgrimage is in vogue at the moment. The numbers of pilgrims arriving at Mecca and Santiago de Compostela grow every…
Charlotte Mew: The Moon’s Dropped Child
It is likely that the case of Charlotte Mew is unique in the history of English poetry. A certain…
In the World, Not of the World: Glenn Gould’s Solitude Trilogy
Thirty years after his death: the pianist-turned-broadcaster.
Death and the Maiden
Did you know Ilina? She used to come here all the time and sit with us after we had…
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