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OLIVE CUSTANCE WAS the long-suffering wife of Lord Alfred Douglas, the beautiful young man over whom Oscar Wilde lost his reputation, livelihood and family. But at the same time Lord Alfred was ...

ARRIVING AT AMBERLEY STATION from London en route to Nigel Foxell’s funeral on August 13, 2018, I saw a sign to a church and, being early, walked there on a blisteringly hot day. It was the wrong ...

WRITING SEVERAL YEARS AGO on the subject of the relation of the new to the old in art, 2 I formulated a view to which I still adhere, in sentences which I take the liberty of quoting, because the ...

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I’VE KNOWN VERONICA Forrest-Thomson’s poetry for a long time, and never felt that I fully understood it, while recognising a great deal of talent in it — mostly in the virtuosity of the writing in a ...

Anthony…though a delightful companion, and brimming over with active intelligence, was in no accurate sense of the word intellectual, and as unhelpful and impatient ...

WHAT WAS MISSING first? The headwinds of affection, unconditional; the inference, a moth. A tremolo of snow on leaves dislodged. Narration twinned with modest rain nobody knew would come and melt the ...

I don’t know, grey horses. I don’t know a lot. The answer is a lot.

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Some time ago it was the fashion, and perhaps it is so still, to append to the title of a novel the words: a true story. Well, that is a little innocent deception … —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

II found it easier to talk about Iraq through fiction. To do otherwise would not have been too painful. I didn’t experience the levels of trauma experienced by Remarque, Graves or Bowlby. For me ...