Andre Gerard’s Alpine Gamble

On or about December 1910 human character changed...

The foundation of good fiction is character-creating, and nothing else...

I well remember the first time I went to the Poetry Bookshop. It was in July, 1913...

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...