2016-03-19 18:53
Edith Wharton was a best-selling novelist, a Pulitzer prizewinner, and a close friend of Henry James. She also wrote a prodigious number of short stories and novellas - and the range of topi… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
There was what appeared to be a very bad slip-up on the Panorama survey of the Woolwich murder this evening. Reporter Peter Taylor commented that the two defendants, now found guilty of the… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
There is a class of celebrity commentators who write for newspapers (print and online) who seem to be hired for their ability to get things wrong and thereby generate attention and further c… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Henry James is well known as the author of magnificent novels such as The Portrait of a Lady, Washington Square, and The Wings of the Dove. But at the same time as writing over twenty full-l… Read More
2014-09-24 11:31
On a recent break I decided to set myself the task of reading one of Henry James longest novels - The Tragic Muse - and one of his most obscure - The Sacred Fount. The first I had once rea… Read More
2014-07-05 10:43
My goodness! Just checked on the presentation photos for the start of tomorrow's Tour - and Andy Schleck already looks as if he is on another chemical planet.Steephill.tv
Team Treck have got… Read More
2013-12-20 00:07
There was what appeared to be a very bad slip-up on the Panorama survey of the Woolwich murder this evening. Reporter Peter Taylor commented that the two defendants, now found guilty of the… Read More
2013-10-13 18:07
I've spent the summer months studying the art of the short story - and used some classic examples to develop tutorials and study guides for students of English Literature. The first group ar… Read More
2012-10-19 14:02
Lance Armstrong could still make a significant contribution to the fight against drug abuse in cycle racing. The solution? Simply make a full confession - naming names, dates, and practices… Read More
2012-10-04 15:21
There was a text version transcript of a reputed out-take from "Have I Got News for You" in which Paul Merton and Angus Deayton mercilessly expose Jimmy Savile as a man who has interfered wi… Read More
2012-09-29 17:19
I seem to have spent ages re-reading Joseph Conrad's Victory: An Island Tale in preparation for another study guide. It's one of his longer novels, and the experience was punctuated by hot s… Read More
2012-09-09 13:41
The twentieth and decisive stage of the Vuelta today. All the main contenders on another cripplingly hard day performed (reasonably) as expected. Maybe Rodriguez and Valverde should have att… Read More
2012-09-06 15:26
Do you know where the apostrophe should go in "My greengrocers oranges"? We've started a new series of self-assessment quizzes, so that you can test your knowledge of English language basics… Read More
2012-09-06 00:05
I'm very suspicious of Alberto Contador. For the last two weeks of the Vuelta he has been struggling to keep pace with the other leaders of the race. Then all of a sudden, today he takes of… Read More
2012-08-24 12:18
Chris Froome and the Sky team released a brilliant performance on stage six of the Vuelta yesterday. It was like the Tour de France all over again. Sergio Henao, Rigoberto Urán, and… Read More
2012-08-22 12:34
My summer reading week(s) recently included two stunning texts by Edith Wharton. She's best known for her novels The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence, but she was also a prolific writ… Read More
2012-08-19 18:45
My summer reading has included the first two novels written by Joseph Conrad - Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands which I had not tackled before. They mark an interesting break wi… Read More
2012-08-16 19:22
Put him in a diplomatic car (which is immune from seizure) - drive to the docks - take car on board - sail to Ecuador - Simples! Read More
2012-07-29 17:55
For many years I have read biographies of artists and critical analyses of early twentieth century culture in which one name has cropped up again and again - Alma Mahler, or to give her full… Read More
2012-07-16 11:36
In the last week of the tour, Bradley Wiggins has distinguished himself as an outstanding sportman, and stamped his authority on the race. Partly with the assistance of the expensive and pow… Read More
2012-07-05 17:11
They've been in print for some time now, but I've only just got around to reading the three volumes of Elias Canetti's memoirs. He's an amazing writer who published a modernist European mast… Read More
2012-06-16 11:43
Henry James is best known as a novelist, but he was also a prolific writer of short stories - or 'tales' as he called them. He wrote over a hundred, and he was particularly fond of ghost st… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
No - not Byron, but Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose biography I have just finished. He might have been an important philosopher; he might have invented one of the first jet engines; and he might… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In the 1850s Charles Dickens was at the height of his powers as a novelist, and two of his greatest works from this period have been the highlights of my summer (re)reading. Bleak House (185… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I have been reading (and writing on) the work of an amazing but little-known Cuban writer called Alejo Carpentier. He was active in the European modernist and surrealist movements in the 19… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Edith Wharton was a prolific writer of stories - maybe call them tales - but not short stories because hardly any of them are what we would now classify as short. She favoured the extended s… Read More
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