Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Behind the fringe

15 October 2016 9:00 am

‘Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen sixty-three,’ Philip Larkin famously announced in his poem ‘Annus Mirabilis’, ‘Between the end of…

Hit and miss

17 September 2016 9:00 am

A few years ago, a reporter from the Chicago Tribune stumbled upon what was widely reported as ‘the Holy Grail…

The laureate of repression

2 July 2016 9:00 am

In 1927, while delivering the lectures that would later be published as Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forster made a…