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
The Brexit crunch approaches
Thorny issues remain unresolved as the transition period comes to a close. Yet the hurdles to a deal are not insurmountable
Meritocracy makes a new ruling class
Innovation has often come from hard work by unlettered people. But young progressives now seem to treat education as a proxy for virtue
Some black lives matter more than others
Black Lives Matter misses the point—we should highlight the progress we have made, not split society and trap ourselves in victimhood