Letters
Surprising literary ventures
Love Letters of a Japanese begins: ‘These letters are real. Love Letters of a Japanese begins: ‘These letters are real. And like all real things they have a quality which… Read more
More gossip with less art?
To say that this first volume of Samuel Beckett’s collected letters is a puzzle and a disappointment is to suggest that one might have had specific expectations of it. Where… Read more
The spice of danger
From the Front Line: Family Letters & Diaries, 1900 to the Falklands & Afghanistan, by Hew Pike ‘Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier,’ reckoned… Read more
Love between the lines
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton Why does this book need to exist? It’s a legitimate question… Read more
Latest blogs
- Met Office in crisis meeting as sun comes out Rod Liddle
- Ken Clarke reignites What Would Thatcher Do? to argue for an ‘In’ referendum vote Isabel Hardman
- Fathers, sons and the beauty of a “borrowed” book David Blackburn
- What David Cameron’s decision to keep Sir George Young as chief whip tells us James Forsyth
- Just Give War A Chance: Obama’s Realpolitik Approach to the Syrian Civil War. Alex Massie
- 18 August 1979: Second class justice for immigrants Anthony Blair
- School choice is not a scandal: Gove nails Twigg’s rum brand of localism Isabel Hardman
