6 OCTOBER 2007, page 38

The Pleasure Of His Company

Sebastian Smee Some writers have the ability to poison one's daily existence. James Salter, I have discovered, is one of them. To read him is to be painfully reminded of how......

Examine My Thoughts

The following extracts are from The Blind Eye: A Book of Late Advice by Don Paterson (Faber, £12.99.) please don't be misled by the apparent self1 certainty of these utterances;......