Doris Lessing and the Artist’s Enduring Legacy
My first venture into Doris Lessing came only in April this year. The Grass is Singing, which had lingered in a bedroom floor pile since Christmas, seemed like an ideal […]
My first venture into Doris Lessing came only in April this year. The Grass is Singing, which had lingered in a bedroom floor pile since Christmas, seemed like an ideal […]
So Hull has been unveiled as the UK City of Culture 2017. When I first visited last year, I stepped into a taxi from the station and asked the jolly […]
Forget the coloured candles in church and the chocolate calendars at home. There’s a new kind of advent heralding the start of Christmas: the advent of the advert. From the […]
Having well and truly digested the delights of the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay over several years, my visit to the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris was […]
I was on the metro in Paris one evening when two voices broke the communal trance. An American tourist was complaining that all ten photos taken of her on the […]
Browsing the Dickens shelf of Waterstones after my graduation in June, a certain question inevitably posed itself. Just how did such an enthusiast of Victorian literature get through an English […]