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
How Top Boys topple down crime’s ladder
Too many prisoners rejoin society with no education, stable housing or job prospects. No surprise that more than half reoffend within a year
In the bleak midwinter
Christmas can be a bleak time of year. While some feel isolated, others are overwhelmed by the need for a perfect family Yuletide when their reality is different
My warnings to our spy watchdogs
Britain is under attack from Russia. And the government is blocking a Parliamentary report that details it