Seeing Robert Lowell Plain
Pushed by professors I came to hear him read, peered down upon a greying shock of hair to catch…
Seeing Robert Lowell Plain
In the centenary of his birth the major American poet Robert Lowell is back in focus, if not quite…
Alexander Herzen in London
Decembrist blood! We are taxed for their visions. The earth turns, returns, through cycles of declamation – Geoffrey Hill, ‘Scenes…
In Shadow and Blood: The Occupation of France
The Charlie Hebdo murders provoked the largest street demonstration in Paris since the Liberation of 1944. Now, in the…
Marilynne Robinson: The Gilead Novels
With Gilead (2004), Home (2008) and Lila (2014) Marilynne Robinson has produced a body of work of a quality…