TWENTY-FIFTH MEETING REPORT THE REAL ‘YOUNG RUSSIAN’: THE DAUGHTER OF BORIS DE CHROUSTCHOFF IN CONVERSATION WITH...
History
Theodore Stephanides and ‘Lili Marlene’
In our cellar, amongst the papers of my husband's grandfather Theodore Stephanides, I came across two...
History’s warning against money printing – through stamps
Looking through my father's stamp collection, I found history's warning against money printing - a phenomenon...
Tea with ‘Jessie Chambers’
The following account is by Eve Leadbeater, a friend of my parents and me, who once met D. H. Lawrence's...
Fragile Peace in Derry, 2019
Yesterday evening a rally in Guildhall Square, Derry, marked the end of a three-day march by more than 160...
Review of ‘Kolyma Stories’, Varlam Shamalov
KOLYMA STORIES Translated and introduced by Donald Rayfield, New York: New York Review of Books, 2018, £14.99, 741 pp....
Radio 4 ‘The Art of Intimacy’ interview
BBC Radio 4 programme 'The Art of Intimacy' (Part 1), in which novelist Eimear McBride considers how novelists across...
Review of ‘Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter’
Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter Edythe Haber £20 (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 UK, 2019 US), 288...
Resisting Tragedy: A Report on the International D.H. Lawrence Conference, Paris, 2018
The opening of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) This report was written for the D.H. Lawrence Society Newsletter,...
Lawrence’s Hampstead: A Walking Tour
The walking tour for which the notes appear below was written by John Worthen, and adapted and enlarged...
Lawrence’s Bloomsbury: Two Walking Tours
The walking tours for which the notes appear below were written by me and delivered during the...
World War II and Memory
This article was commissioned by the Institute of Arts and Ideas for their website IAI News. An edited and shortened...
Anglo-Greek Arcadia and Me
The following article was published in the June 2017 issue of Standpoint magazine, and it may be read here. My...
Review of ‘Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel’
This review appeared in Standpoint in December/January 2016/17 John Stubbs, Jonathan Swift: The...
Moscow: History of a Symbol
Russia doesn’t do towns. There are no Russian Granthams, Great Yarmouths, or Leighton Buzzards. Its...
Teffi from Odessa to Paris
The following is a pre-edited version of a review published here in the May 2016 issue of The Literary Review. ...
Whataboutism in the Gulag
A couple of Sundays ago I was in the Gulag. Or, to be accurate, in a memorial on the site of a former...
The Unintended Consequences of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’
This article was published in Standpoint magazine on 24th September 2015. What follows is a pre-edited draft. ...
Review of Nabokov’s Letters to His Wife
Letters to Véra Vladimir Nabokov Edited and translated by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd Penguin Classics, 2014, 798...
Review of ‘Behind the Mask: the Life of Vita Sackville-West’ by Matthew Dennison
Matthew Dennison, Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West, William Collins, 2014, 364 pp., £25 This...