A knife-fight in a phone booth
In August the Department of Education announced that GCSE students would be allowed to drop poetry as a subject in their 2021 exams, prompting protests by what the Daily Mail called “celebrity
In search of ‘English Proust’
Can the Recherche be adapted and remain Proust? And should it really be seen as therapy?
Dread, time and the pandemic
Søren Kierkegaard’s reflections on worry are useful reading for those in lockdown
Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps
The dedication at the front of Graham and Hugh Greene’s famous anthology of espionage literature, The Spy’s Bedside Book (1957), reads: “To the immortal memory of William le Queux and John Buchan”.
Lords and Ladies of Byzantium
Ancient Greek culture, Roman law and Eastern Christianity all contributed to the longevity of the Byzantine Empire