Groucho Marx

High life

9 April 2022 9:00 am

One hundred or so years ago, a down-in-the-dumps Joseph Roth wrote to Stefan Zweig: ‘The barbarians have taken over.’ Later…

Long life

18 July 2015 9:00 am

I have always been what I suppose one could call a weed, and a cowardly one at that. I never…

Chico, Harpo and Groucho Marx (left to right) enjoy a day at the races

Marx men

10 January 2015 9:00 am

Ian Thomson celebrates the anarchic genius of Groucho and his brothers

Gossip, gossip from all the nations

30 November 2013 9:00 am

Under normal circumstances, Simon Garfield’s chatty and informative excursion into the history of letter-writing would be a book to recommend.…