Binding the Beautiful
'Do you suppose any mortal has skill enough to make a butterfly?’
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ESSAYS & REVIEWS
- 3 days ago
- 6 min
Human Wrongs, Animal Rights?
‘We expect extinction after people arrive on an island…survival is the exception.’
- 3 days ago
- 7 min
History as it Should Have Been
Truths needn’t always depend upon facts for their expression’. So says Tom Crewe, in the Afterword to The New Life.
- 6 days ago
- 7 min
Electra Complex
‘We paint our toenails red, though we put shoes on our feet so no one will see our flashy toes.'
- Oct 26
- 5 min
Above All Else: Desire in Maggie Millner
Love poetry is a risky business. Maggie Millner in her debut Couplets: A Love Story (2023) seems all too aware of this.
- Oct 21
- 9 min
New Caribbean Realism
The original function of the novel, V.S. Naipaul once suggested, was to give us news: to provide society with a very clear idea of itself.
- Oct 17
- 4 min
Song of Summer
As we read through Sensitive to Temperature, it becomes clear that the relationships therein are indeed sensitive to temperature.
- Oct 7
- 5 min
Sharing Space: The House on Via Gemito
SARAH MOORHOUSE - Both Starnone and Ferrante are interested in our imperfect understanding of others.
- Oct 5
- 7 min
In the Manner of a Genius: Reviewing Courtauld's Forgery Exhibition
PHILIPPA CONLON - ‘Imitation’, we are told, ‘is the sincerest form of flattery’.
- Apr 17, 2017
- 13 min
The Bedside of the Mind
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov Gennady Barabtarlo, Princeton, 2017 ‘The most moronic fraternity in the...
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