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Leo Tolstoy hoped to finish Anna Karenina quickly. Within a year of beginning the novel in early 1873, he was already looking forward to its rapid publication in book form. The entire “carcass” of ...
In her Reith Lecture in 2017, Hilary Mantel reflected that the historical novelist “works away at the point where what is enacted meets what is dreamed, where politics meets psychology, where private ...
At the beginning of Moby-Dick, Ishmael imagines himself appearing on a bill, sandwiched between two great events. One is the “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States”; the ...
At the start of her second letter to Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB) writes of an Italian master who once told her about an unpronounceable English word which absolutely expressed me ...
“To unlock the mysteries of the universe”, writes the journalist Stephen Kurczy in The Quiet Zone, his highly engaging, first full-length work of non-fiction, “we have to be quiet.” The radio ...
Some years ago, my wife and I were in Jerusalem when we decided to visit the Hasidic neighbourhood of Mea Shearim. During my late teens, I had spent two years studying in a yeshiva just outside ...
Over the past few years there has been a boom in scholarly studies of the Palace of Westminster, both as a historic building and in its present vulnerable ...
Ever since 1940, the mere silhouette of an elliptical winged Supermarine Spitfire has been enough to summon up potent symbolism of Britain standing alone. In the deep night of a very different battle, ...
The Madness of Grief, Richard Coles’s memoir about the death of his civil partner, covers the period from Father David’s final hospital admission in ...
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Lauren Groff’s new collection of short stories, Florida, explores the contra­dictions of a maddening and seductive state. This is not the slick Florida of Miami but a land of boiled peanuts, “Spanish ...