Anthony Powell

The real reason I don’t drink

4 May 2024 9:00 am

It’s been 30 years this month since I last touched alcohol and I still can’t face the prospect of a…

Diary

9 September 2023 9:00 am

The magic of Anthony Powell

19 December 2020 9:00 am

Every few years I’ve picked up one or other of Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time series…

Why I’ve been written out of Anthony Powell’s history

27 January 2018 9:00 am

You’re in the index, but not in the book. This ghostly sensation has been my experience since 1990 after commissioning…

Anthony Powell, by Henry Lamb (1934)

Of his time

30 September 2017 9:00 am

Great novelists come in all shapes and sizes, but one thing they all share is a status of half-belonging. If…

His own worst enemy

29 July 2017 9:00 am

One fail-safe test of a writer’s reputation is to see how many times his or her books get taken out…

John Aubrey and his circle: those magnificent men and their flying machines

14 March 2015 9:00 am

John Aubrey investigated everything from the workings of the brain, the causation of winds and the origins of Stonehenge to…

Twelve miles of indefatigable misery

24 January 2015 9:00 am

The taxi-driver wound his window one third of the way down and put a priestlike, confessional ear to the freezing…

A Stone in the Shade, by Violet Powell - review

10 August 2013 9:00 am

Evelyn Waugh once recalled the anguish with which he greeted Edith Sitwell’s announcement that ‘Mr Waugh, you may call me…