The Story So Far
by Charles Miller
Sunday, December 4, 2022
Too much poetry for a novel, but perfect for Wes Anderson
›
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje Apologies to the author, but I'm afraid that by the end, I found this novel annoying and ...
Sunday, October 9, 2022
What can historians hope to achieve?
›
What do we mean when we ask what were “the causes of” a historical episode? Any answer must surely involve claiming that without that cause,...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
How not to deal with foreign currency
›
I just got back from a week in Norway. On the way there, at Heathrow, I got some Norwegian Krone and now I'm home, I went to my local c...
Saturday, July 30, 2022
A sketchy life of Turner
›
Turner by Peter Ackroyd Ackroyd delivers on the promise of a ‘brief life’ (as in the title of the series of which it is a part), but th...
Monday, January 3, 2022
How to succeed in Victorian journalism
›
New Grub Street by George Gissing Published in 1891, New Grub Street tells the story of a group of struggling London writers winning or l...
›
Home
View web version