N ot everyone has “appreciated” this novel since its publication in Russia in 2000. Most notably, the book was decried for its graphic depictions of sex between Khrushchev and Stalin. In a public ...

Not a bundle of laughs, the New Testament, let’s be honest. And yet there is a subtle realignment constantly going on, which qualifies the texts for examination as the overall work of a humourist.

A Fortnightly Review. Stephen Romer Chaos and the Clean Line: Writings on Franco-British Modernism. Legenda 2024 | Hb, £85.00 | 384pp. By Chris Miller. I n the magnifying glass of the poetic word, ...

ANTHONY HOWELL, a former dancer with the Royal Ballet, was founder of The Theatre of Mistakes and performed solo at the Hayward Gallery and at the Sydney Biennale.His articles on visual art, dance, ...

After Luna came some bogus country band. A Fender Strat being fingered and canoodled over a beer gut. The woman singer wore a Dolly Parton candyfloss confection, her coiffure like her lyrics bringing ...

I t had been a long day. Starting before dawn, my wife, Ornella Trevisan, and I had driven down from Reading to be in Dorchester in good time for the beginning of a symposium organised by the Thomas ...

from Book 7 (Erotic section from Agape or Eros) S o I’ll endorse erotic love for all its risks of mania, possessive rage And merely ludic dalliance. At least its peaks and pitfalls entertain. Take the ...

Modern tragedy often goes for the heist: we do not stumble into crime, as poor Oedipus did. We choose it, even if reluctantly. Michael Corleone at the beginning of The Godfather explains to Kay that ...

< chapters 13 & 14 chapters 17 & 18 >. A Fortnightly Serial. By ALAN WALL. • Chapter Fifteen. Absent Voices, Absent Faces. W ILL GOT BACK to his flat in Oswestry that Friday to find the light on his ...

from Book 5. B egin with ‘Once upon a time there was a man named Du Dsi Tschun: in his youth a spendthrift who squandered his inheritance. Fond of wine and idling, he drank and continued to drink, And ...

(after Jaccottet) By PETER LARKIN. I had been reading Philippe Jaccottet in French and English for many years, so was particularly moved to come across his last published poems (La Clarté Notre-Dame) ...