… trailing strands in all directions
Letters of Intent — letters of the intense. Keen readers of Cynthia Ozick (are there any other kind?) will of…
Dreaming of wide open spaces
On the website of the Australian National University in Canberra, emeritus professor of history Barry Higman lists his research interests…
Flights of fancy
Michael Chabon’s back. He’d never gone away, of course — more than a dozen books in all — but it’s…
Flights of fancy
Michael Chabon’s back. He’d never gone away, of course — more than a dozen books in all — but it’s…
Port in any storm
Cometh the hour, cometh the book, and so Christmas brings us once again a tidal wave of titles relating to…
All work, many plays
‘Krapping away here to no little avail,’ writes Beckett to the actor Patrick Magee in September 1969. To ‘no little…
Smaller than life
For Jonathan Safran Foer fans and sceptics alike, Here I Am comes as a wonderful gift, a truly painful, honest…
A merry guide
If you have legs, or a bicycle, or indeed both, you are going to love this book. Chaps, no matter…
