Travel writing
Henry Miller — pornographer or prophet?
Few writers seem less deserving of resuscitation than Henry Miller. When the Scottish poet and novelist John Burnside was asked…
Journey to Timbuktu and beyond
Every so often a monster comes along. Here’s one — but a monster of fact not fiction, over 700 pages…
Colin Thubron’s Night of Fire both disturbs and consoles
Night of Fire is Colin Thubron’s first novel for 14 years. For most of us he is better known as…
Paris: a beautiful, damned city
The much-lamented journalist and bon viveur Sam White, late of the rue du Bac, The Spectator and the Evening Standard,…
Lesley Blanch: a true original on the wilder shores of exoticism
Lesley Blanch (1904–2007) will be remembered chiefly for her gloriously extravagant The Wilder Shores of Love, the story of four…
'O My America!', by Sara Wheeler - review
You might not expect Sara Wheeler, the intrepid literary traveller, to be anxious about passing the half-century point. Surely a…
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‘We need to drive normal
people out of politics.’
‘There are rumours another crash could be on the way.’
‘Must you do your make-up on the Tube?’
‘There’s a Novichokolate on the pillow.’
‘All you do is binge watch.’
‘Amazon would have delivered
your sermon a lot quicker.’
‘Don’t feed the Lib Dems – it
just encourages them.’
‘Hush, hush, lower your tone,Christopher Robin is checking his phone.’
‘There’s a 12.5 per cent surcharge for American tourists.’
‘We’ve just weaned her onto taking photos of solid food.’
