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Jeffrey Meyers

A writer diminished
"Defenders of Leonard Woolf’s wife, Virginia, have turned her into a heroine, even a victim, and diminished his formidable achievements"
Jeffrey Meyers

Design for living and loving
The three lives of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus
Jeffrey Meyers

Exiles fall out in La La Land
How Thomas Mann and Arnold Schoenberg quarreled in the irritable hothouse climate of the Los Angeles émigrés
Jeffrey Meyers

Sylvia has the last wounding word
The second volume of Plath’s Letters begins with great happiness and poetic promise — and ends with the destruction of her marriage and her death
Jeffrey Meyers

King Saul in his pomp — and dotage
Five wives and out? How Saul Bellow’s turbulent private life informed his novels
Jeffrey Meyers

How Monet created motion pictures
The great Impressionist’s series of paintings of Rouen Cathedral prefigures the movies: his eye was the camera, his canvas the screen
Jeffrey Meyers

Tormented prophets of apocalyptic art
Schiele and Soutine both used art to express pathological suffering and confront death
Jeffrey Meyers

A portrait of the artists as a pair of young wastrels
Outsiders, gamblers, brawlers: Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon had a volatile friendship which flourished wildly but ended badly
Jeffrey Meyers

The Devoted Disciple Of Wyndham Lewis
Hugh Gordon Porteus was a minor but engaging figure in London’s pre-war bohemia 
Jeffrey Meyers

British Witnesses To Lenin’s Revolution
Five British writers were in Russia in 1917. Each one had his own story, but all were overwhelmed by the powerful tide of history
Jeffrey Meyers

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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