Nigeness

 I was sorry to learn that the UK edition of that old warhorse Reader's Digest is to close down, unable to stay afloat in today's m...

 Talking of public monuments, here, viewed from behind, is a tree sculpture that overlooks Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire, which I visited at...

 The unveiling of the latest appalling public statue – of the late Queen and her (rather more lifelike) corgis, in Rutland, a delightful lit...

 On this day in 1947, Willa Cather died in her Park Avenue home, at the age of 73, not of the cancer that she had been living with for some ...

 Vladimir Nabokov was born on this day in 1899, though by the old calendar it would have been the 10th of April, and the following year it b...

 This morning, I thought I'd try another Blindfold Poetry Selection . The slim volume I blindly took from the shelf turned out to be A C...

  Yesterday I was in London – always something of a shock to the system these days ('I had not thought death had undone so many', et...