Jan Morris
Only prigs and bores could object to the incongruity of Portmeirion
With its colonnade, campaniles and ice-cream colours, Clough Williams-Ellis’s fantasy brings a touch of the Italian Riviera to north Wales
Parallel lives
Aged 69, the travel writer had a stroke and spent his last 20 years as a hemiplegic – and writing this memoir of his father’s life intertwined with snapshots of his own
High life
New York The acerbic writer Gore Vidal was once asked which period of history he would choose to have lived…
The dumbing down of the Reith Lectures
It’s been a heavyweight week on Radio 4 with the start of the annual series of Reith Lectures and a…
Diary
Quarrelling about the date of Easter has been a Christian pastime for centuries. The chief bone of contention is whether…
