Daisy Dunn

“We do so love a literary rejection, provided it isn’t our own, of course.”

Miniature paintings suit the modern world — we live in a miniaturised world

“Every time I read of a new algorithm for producing a hit pop song, or software for writing a Man Booker-worthy novel, I know I’m in for a disappointment”

Classical scholarship for love, not money, leads to some liberating interpretations

The magnificent palazzo where Disraeli’s Young England group used to gather is long gone, but its grounds have now been restored

Talking about maths on aesthetic terms might make it more appealing to reluctant teens

The posthumous publication of Aeneid VI is a katabasis for Heaney’s father

Cocteau’s poetic protégé was a louche literary wunderkind the world lost too soon