The enduring message of Anthony Powell’s work
Anthony Powell died on 28 March 2000, twenty-five years ago today. It is also fifty years since he completed his…
The perfect genius of P.G. Wodehouse’s ‘never-never land’
Pelham Grenville (PG – or Plum) Wodehouse breathed his last on Valentine’s Day fifty years ago. As Evelyn Waugh saw…
The genius of Nancy Mitford
Nancy, the first – and perhaps most famous – of the six Mitford girls, died half-a-century ago on 30 June.…
Granada’s Brideshead Revisited remains the sine qua non of mini-series
Sumptuous, glorious, luminous, lavish: Granada’s 40-year-old adaptation of Brideshead Revisited remains the sine qua non of mini-series, says Mark McGinness
James Bond and the Beatles herald a new Britain
The word ‘magisterial’ consistently attaches itself to the work of David Kynaston. His eye-wateringly exhaustive four-volume history of the Old…
To the brownstone born: WASPS, by Michael Knox Beran, reviewed
It was only in 1948 that the term WASP was coined — by a Florida folklorist, Stetson Kennedy. Yet White…
