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Ian SansomNew Statesman |
Literary scandals – like actual scandals – come and go. Who now recalls, or indeed cares less about, the hoo-ha surrounding whether or not the...
‘The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks… And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the...
As anyone who has ever been lucky enough to spend time in a psychiatric hospital knows, you don’t have to be completely mad to be there. A lot of us...
Joshua Paul Dale is a professor of American literature and culture at Chuo University in Tokyo and a pioneer in what is apparently a burgeoning...
When you think of a collector you might imagine, say, Sir John Soane, Henry Wellcome, Charles Saatchi or Peggy Guggenheim, the fabulously wealthy,...
It’s been a while since I read a good cento, from the Latin and derived from the Greek, I need not remind Spectator readers, meaning...