Book review – memoir
A book for all ages
The genesis of The Road to Middlemarch was a fine article in the New Yorker about Rebecca Mead’s unsuccessful search…
A place of rough justice
There are writers whose prose style is so fluid, so easy, the reader feels as though he has been taken…
A tireless networker
We critics seldom write our memoirs, perhaps because we skulk away our lives in dark corners, avoiding the public gaze,…
Back to her native roots
Like an old woman in a fairy story, Germaine Greer, now in her late seventies, has taken to lurking in…
The wrong side of the barricade
Historians still argue over whether the regime of the GDR can be called a totalitarian one. Some say that the…
An old-fashioned English eccentric
Daniel Swift 1 March 2014 9:00 am
The traditional story told about the first world war is that it changed everything: that it was the end of…