Nigeness

 My latest charity bookshop find was a book I didn't even know existed – Nietzsche in Turin by Lesley Chamberlain. I was partly attract...

 I must admit I had no idea there was such a thing as the Big Jubilee Read going on until I stepped into my local library today and noticed ...

 Fond though I am of Chester – a town I'll be visiting again the week after next, as it happens – I was startled to discover that it has...

 Busyness (mostly domestic) and the mental torpor of summer have prevented me doing much blogging lately, but I note that today is John Betj...

 Talking of Chekhov (as we almost were), I just came across this poem by Louis Simpson, which illustrates one of Chekhov's many endearin...

A couple of weeks ago, it was Philip Larkin's centenary – and back in April Kingsley Amis's – and today comes the sesquicentenary of...

 You live and learn. Dipping last night into that fine gallimaufry of odds and ends, The Frank Muir Book: An Irreverent Companion to Social ...