R Upert C Hristiansen Recently I’ve Had The Good Fortune...
three works of magisterial scholarship in these pages — John Haffenden’s William Empson: Among the Mandarins (OUP, £30), Philip Gossett’s Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian......
J Onathan M Irsky
Mencken: The American Iconoclast: The Life and Times of the Bad Boy of Baltimore by Marion Rodgers (OUP, £19.99). There was never a journalist like H. L. Mencken (1880-1956). In......
A Nita B Rookner The Word ‘relevant’ Seems To Have...
of fashion for the moment but cannot entirely be avoided. I found that most of this year’s novels seemed old-fashioned, prelapsarian, as if written for a leisured age untouched......
P. J. K Avanagh Helena Drysdale’s Strangerland: A Family...
(Picador, 14.99) stays in the mind because of its mixture of history with the personal, which makes the history live. Pre-Mutiny military life in India (the Sikh wars) and a......
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