Kipling
A life lived to the hilt: Clare Consuelo Sheridan
The daughter of an American heiress and first cousin to Winston Churchill suffered penury and widowhood but went on to lead an extraordinary life as a sculptor, author, journalist and Soviet sympathiser who had affairs with H.G. Wells, Trotsky, Charlie Chaplin, Ataturk and Mussolini among many others
Poetry in motion
Craig Raine on the challenges of translating poets’ lives and work to the screen
High life
I write this as a follow-up to last week’s essay on muzzling after making whoopee. I’m on my way to…
Brilliant essayists, dark and fair
Read cover to cover, a book of essays gives you the person behind it: their voice, the trend of their…
These I have loved
In the preface to his great collection of essays The Dyer’s Hand, W.H. Auden claimed: ‘I prefer a critic’s notebooks…
Wild life
Laikipia With a shriek, the warrior arched his body, readying to sling his spear at my chest. The tear-dropped javelin…
Juliet Townsend (1941-2014)
Mark Amory remembers a close friend and trusted reviewer
