The following account is by Eve Leadbeater, a friend of my parents and me, who once met D. H. Lawrence's...

The following account is by Eve Leadbeater, a friend of my parents and me, who once met D. H. Lawrence's...
I have just reviewed Mud and Stars: Travels In Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses Of The Golden Age by Sara...
I break my long silence on my blog (students...exam-marking) to reprint the text of the open letter to the British...
Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev (1964-), Arte France Cinéma, Why Not Productions, released 13.5.2017, 128 minutes. To...
In my post Reflections on the Death of an Aunt I mentioned an incident in which my aunt was nearly raped by an...
The Death of Stalin, 2017, dir. Armando Iannucci, adapted by Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin from the French...
Our summer holiday this year consisted of a week in Shanghai visiting a friend, followed by a week in Malaysia...
It is with some trepidation that I blog for the first time about Donald Trump. It is partly because I...
When Russians and Britons discuss literature – especially British fiction, especially if written since the Lady...
National Portrait Gallery, London, 17th March-26th June 2016 One of the good things about this very good...
Imagine that Vladimir Putin were not a murderous autocrat and kleptocrat who has spent his fourteen years in power...