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Eliot versus Hardy

Thomas Hardy and T.S. Eliot are the two greatest 20th-century poets in the English language, despite what they may have thought of one another. It is remarkable that the readers of Hardy's

November 19, 2009

Academia·Critique·Literature·Publishing

Connecticut: My Battle Against Google

‘I cursed and gaped. I closed and reopened the web site and there it all was again, three years of work, plus debt and lack of medical care and some rather bizarre

October 22, 2009

Dispatches·Literature·Technology

Schiller’s Poetics of Freedom

The plays of Friedrich Schiller can guide us, or offer a guide to self-guidance, so that we may preserve our freedoms in the face of conflicting moral imperatives

October 22, 2009

Critique·Literature·Philosophy

Deadly Possibilities

Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marias

October 22, 2009

Books·Literature

Scandinavian Scandals

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

October 22, 2009

Books·Literature·Scandinavia

Poetic Justice

Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958-2008 and The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008 by Clive James

September 23, 2009

Books·Literature

Dazed and Confused

William Golding: The Man who wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey

September 22, 2009

Books·Literature

Of Human Frailty

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings

August 25, 2009

Books·Literature

Ripping Yarns

The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts Do we really need another history of the Second World War? That’s the question that immediately comes to mind on picking up Andrew Roberts’s weighty

August 25, 2009

Books·History·Literature·Military

In Love with His Public

Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing by Michael Slater

August 25, 2009

Books·Literature

Bad Luck with the Weather

John Piper, Myfanwy Piper, Lives in Art by Frances Spalding

August 25, 2009

Art·Books·Literature

The Character of Englishness

Dr Johnson, the greatest writer of critical prose in the English language, was able to impart to his readers both human nature in general, and the character of Englishness in particular

August 25, 2009

Critique·Literature·Publishing·Theatre

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