Book review – collected journalism
Dennis Potter: one of the last great masters of vituperation
‘Genuine invective is an almost lost art in our wild satirical age,’ Dennis Potter complained in New Society in 1966.…
Wendy Cope on hating school, meeting Billy Graham and enduring Freudian analysis
A surprise! I took this book from its envelope expecting a fresh collection of Wendy Cope’s poems, and opened it…
Business books aren't meant to cheer you up. But this one will
Economics is known as ‘the dismal science’, and certainly there have been — and indeed are — economists whose day…
Why everyone wants what Nora Ephron was having
I have come late to Nora Ephron — a little too late for her, anyway, as she died in 2012.…
There's so much mystery around Charles Portis that we're not even clear whether he’s alive
The American writer, Charles Portis, has had what some novelists — the more purist ones — might regard as an…
