Sylvia Townsend Warner
The self-taught maritime artist who transcends ‘naïve’ cliché
In the manner of Richard Holmes’s Footsteps, Julia Blackburn’s story of John Craske is as much autobiography as biography, as…
Sorbet with Rimbaud
The Bloomsbury of the title refers to the place, not the group. The group didn’t have a poet. ‘I would…
Curtains for kitty! How to care for cats — and how to kill them
The New Yorker has always had a peculiar affinity with cats, perhaps because they have a lot in common —…
