25 MARCH 2006, page 38

And So The Years Passed . . .

Sara Wheeler expresses the frustrations and joys of tackling a biographical subject without any material ‘B iographies,’ wrote John Updike, ‘are just novels with indexes.’ An......

Sleeping With The Alphabet

You glorious twenty-six, not equal In purport, short straws of words, Come with me to the night-time squall, My hurricane of verbs. My chiefest pegs to hang fear on — Don’t......