Ford Madox Ford
A nasty little tale about a marriage: Look What You Made Me Do, by John Lanchester, reviewed
The life of recently widowed Kate is cast into further turmoil by a hit TV series which suggests that her husband had been having an affair with its scriptwriter
High life
Harvard man Russell Seitz has sent me an extraordinary present as an object lesson in ‘what a magazine should be…
Flashes of brilliance
Funny old life, eh? Small world, etc. In one of those curious, Alan Bennett-y, believe-it-or-not-but-I-once-delivered-meat-to-the mother-in-law-of-T.S.-Eliot-type coincidences, it turns out…
A friend in need
What Are You Going Through is both brilliant and mercifully brief. Weighing in at 200-odd pages, it can be read…
A graceful writer and a graceful man
Tom Stoppard recalls bedsit days in Sixties London with his laconic friend Derek Marlowe, as they both embarked on a life of writing
Wild life
In bed Safety measures — I’ve never been good at them, so inevitably I inhaled and got soaked by the…
In Papa’s footsteps
‘In the years since 1961 Hemingway’s reputation as “the outstanding author since the death of Shakespeare” shrank to the extent…
