Ian Sansom

… trailing strands in all directions

29 July 2017 9:00 am

Letters of Intent — letters of the intense. Keen readers of Cynthia Ozick (are there any other kind?) will of…

Not everyone’s dream: the Simpson Desert, Australia

Dreaming of wide open spaces

1 April 2017 9:00 am

On the website of the Australian National University in Canberra, emeritus professor of history Barry Higman lists his research interests…

Flights of fancy

11 February 2017 9:00 am

Michael Chabon’s back. He’d never gone away, of course — more than a dozen books in all — but it’s…

Flights of fancy

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

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

10 December 2016 9:00 am

Cometh the hour, cometh the book, and so Christmas brings us once again a tidal wave of titles relating to…

All work, many plays

1 October 2016 9:00 am

‘Krapping away here to no little avail,’ writes Beckett to the actor Patrick Magee in September 1969. To ‘no little…

Smaller than life

10 September 2016 9:00 am

For Jonathan Safran Foer fans and sceptics alike, Here I Am comes as a wonderful gift, a truly painful, honest…

Honister Pass in the Lake District. The ragged granite fells of Cumbria account for nearly half the cols in England

A merry guide

25 June 2016 4:00 am

If you have legs, or a bicycle, or indeed both, you are going to love this book. Chaps, no matter…