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Louis MacNeice and Autumn Journal
It can be a risky business listening to a poet read their own work, and the more distant in time that poet is, the riskier it gets. Too often their tight vowels and precise diction makes them sound too much BBC radio announcers from the ear...
The writer’s bookshelf: Andrew Graham-Dixon
Andrew Graham-Dixon is an award-winning art historian, author, broadcaster and lecturer.
His latest book, the critically acclaimed Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, which offers a radical new account of the artist’s life and work, is publis...
On chickens, cattle and medieval sculpture
Come for the animal husbandry, scroll down for – I promise – gorgeous medieval art
I don’t often do straight newsletters, but this seems like a fortuitous moment. For the last ten days or so I’ve been on holiday in rura…
The writer’s bookshelf: David Benedict
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
David Benedict is a cultural critic and broadcaster. He is the former arts editor of The Independent and The Observer and is a regular contributor on BBC arts programmes. His interviews, f...
Review: How England Began by Nicholas Higham
A compelling account of the British experience under Roman and Anglo-Saxon rule
I wrote this review earlier in the year. But having posted a piece about the Bayeux Tapestry last week – and specifically about the extent to which it articula...
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