J.R.R. Tolkein
Mind Your Language: Waybread
‘Did you say “fabric”?’ asked my husband when I was telling him about words that have just been added to…
Charles Williams: sadist or Rosicrucian saint?
Charles Williams was a bad writer, but a very interesting one. Most famous bad writers have to settle, like Sidney…
The best of British — from Agatha Christie to the YBAs
Is it true that, having lost an empire, we reinvented ourselves as an island of entertainers? Do we channel the…
