Nigeness

Yesterday I took a stroll around the gallery we must now call Tate Britain. The walls of the Duveen Galleries are at present covered with ...

It's St Cecilia's Day today. This calls for some music – and this, from John Dryden – A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687 ...

The recent exceptional acque alte in Venice have received much coverage in the news – coverage that has been predictably unilluminating, ...

Today I went up to town for a few hours, strolling around and dropping in on various establishments, including what must surely be the poshe...

I've just realised that today is Auberon Waugh's 80th birthday – or it would be if he were still with us. That eventuality was never...

My addiction to Ivy Compton-Burnett has kicked in again, and I'm back on the hard stuff – in this case, A Family and a Fortune (1939), ...

Today is the 132nd birthday of Marianne Moore, so a poem is surely called for. Here is her 'Silence', a poem full of wise words, ...