Laura Freeman
Edward Burne-Jones
A dream of Camelot: the ethereal genius of Edward Burne-Jones
Write on
What are the duties of the modern author? To tweet hourly, to Instagram daily, to podcast weekly, to pen a monthly TinyLetter
My private Paris
Get a gallery to yourself in Paris: pick an unfashionable country or a passed-over period
Pure filth
When it comes to walking, be independent and indefatigable, like Jane Austen’s heroines — and Jane Austen herself
Into the vortex of Widmerpool
“Everyone has their Widmerpool . . . Who is your Widmerpool? — awesomely, whose Widmerpool are you?”
Driving me crazy
Would a 100-yen good luck token buy me Zen at the wheel?
Towards the end of the story
Stephen Glover’s Fleet Street novel Splash! is a burlesque treat
Tricks Of Memory
Novels by Francesca Segal and Anna Stothard take on the plight of the modern Millenial
A Holy Man In Harrow
The life of the poet and artist David Jones
Bold Women About Town
The flâneuse — the female counterpart to the flâneur — and her adventures in cities past and present
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal