Book review – collected journalism
Master of vitriol
‘Genuine invective is an almost lost art in our wild satirical age,’ Dennis Potter complained in New Society in 1966.…
The making of a poet
A surprise! I took this book from its envelope expecting a fresh collection of Wendy Cope’s poems, and opened it…
Home-grown sage
Economics is known as ‘the dismal science’, and certainly there have been — and indeed are — economists whose day…
Queen of rom-com
I have come late to Nora Ephron — a little too late for her, anyway, as she died in 2012.…
A modern Mark Twain
The American writer, Charles Portis, has had what some novelists — the more purist ones — might regard as an…
