On 14 June 1940, Paris fell to the German Army. The British author Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote in her diary.…
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re…
I chanced upon this painting of the meeting between Galileo and John Milton and had a flashback to undergraduate days…
It's London in wartime, in the blackout before the Blitz and the streets of Soho are full of characters straight…
Based on his published letters,1940 was a busy year for T.S.Eliot. He was based in London and working at Faber…
Hope I'm not jumping the gun here but the #1940Club starts next week and I've been gearing up and getting…
Norman Pearson returned towards the end of January, after an absence in Spain and Portugal, bearing two bananas, two oranges…
A recent NYTimes Cooking newsletter from Melissa Clark drew my attention to the article about Raghavan Iyer by Kim Severson …
Two centuries after William Hogarth published his engravings of the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, Rebecca West wrote a…
Felled by the dreaded lurgy in early January I was sidelined from my usual reading routine. It’s hard to concentrate…