Amy Glynn: Ketamine Redwoods

Claude McKay offered in Harlem Shadows a genuinely new sensibility in African American and Black Caribbean arts...

Whatever my own hesitations, I usually end up challenging the idea that there are things we must not write about, for fear of giving offense...

On February 2 2022, Ulysses turns 100...

‘And’ is superfluous, omissible. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the regulated couplets of Tang poetry...

Tricking people into sharing copies of manuscripts with you turns out to be seriously illegal...

The men stayed one year, then another. Where else to go?

My favourite public-house, the Moon Under Water, is only two minutes from a bus stop, but it is on a side-street...

Where do you put that memory as you sit in a café in Dizengoff Street, when it taps you on the shoulder and asks if this seat is taken?

The Dud Avocado follows the period young Sally Gorce chooses an expat existence in Paris over college...

Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen...

With these impedimenta carefully corded up in a strong deal box I felt myself equal to any photographic emergency...

Unlike the ancient Odyssey or the modernist Ulysses, the epic work that is Amazon delivers immediate gratification to all customers...

John le Carré became a diligent student of nineteenth-century German literature. He was recruited by the British Secret Intelligence Service while at Oxford...

The biggest delight of my Conan Doyle sleuthing may well be a false clue, even if the facts are not in doubt...

The art work in fiction is less likely to be the basis for some epiphany than to be a MacGuffin...

Paris wasn’t then what it is now...

To experience a version of the cool exhilaration of a mid-twentieth-century American jazz night, one might start by listening to an iconic Miles Davis recording...

Did Marinetti's visit to Argentina contribute to the spread of Fascism?