The phrase “alliterative poetry” immediately connotes archaism, and a literary […]

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There are errors in Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain but they are minor and do little to diminish author Matthew Green's empathetic erudition or cloud his conjuration of still-potent places -- redolent symbols of sacrifice and future fragility in a Britain he observes less through its attributes than their absence

In today’s British landscape of the arts, Alexander Adams stands […]

Dirk Liesemer is a writing Wandervögel, an epistolary inheritor of […]

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'The Leopard', E.M. Forster observed, is one of 'the great lonely books'. If the prestigious protagonist felt lonely, then how much more isolated his real-life grandson, diminished representative of a discredited class and heir to almost worthless estates? In his worthwhile 'Lampedusa' author Steven Price addresses that question and others

The British historian Philip Mansel is fascinated by splendour and […]

Roger Daltrey's 'Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite' will not win literary awards, but readers do get abundant and entertaining anecdotes from The Who vocalist about the Sixties' great attempt to remake the world and have a good time doing it. That attempt, we now know, was vain, the collateral damage vast