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
Will the green agenda be killed off by the pandemic?
‘Will the green agenda be killed off by the longer-term coronavirus recovery? Or might the closure of so much business, and the cleaner air that results from planes not flying and factories not working, give us extra years to gain control of our environment?’
Why T.S. Eliot still matters
His contemporaries’ reputations have diminished. But Eliot’s has grown: he is the poet who shows us what can be saved from the ruins
Music’s in the house
Rappers have found a role in lockdown: chronicling coronavirus with topical tunes. Most people, though, are rushing to the safety of the past