The Summer Isles – A Voyage of the Imagination review
“The boat,” wrote the philosopher Michel Foucault, “is the greatest reserve of the imagination… In civilisations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place
“The boat,” wrote the philosopher Michel Foucault, “is the greatest reserve of the imagination… In civilisations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place
The idea behind John O’Connell’s Bowie’s Books is a truly terrific one; its execution, less so. All the same, there is enough insight and perception
A short way into Ben Lerner’s new novel, The Topeka School, Jonathan, a therapist at the Topeka “Foundation”, and one of the novel’s narrators, is
Marie-Henri Beyle, the French author who lived from 1783 to 1842, was a “romantic realist”. So, clearly of an oxymoronic bent and with an overactive
Can any more be said about “appeasement”, a word so scarred by association with the 1930s that it has lost any general utility? In truth
The novelist Michel Houellebecq has repeatedly claimed that he was at his happiest in life in his first literary incarnation as a little-known troubadour poet,
Like anyone remotely sane I try to subscribe to Bret Easton Ellis’s anti-anti-Trump stance. Trump may try your sanity to the very limit, but you
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