Notebook February 2010
Unmasking the unmaskers
On the uses & abuses of the Great Books.
Department: “Notebook”
Notebook December 2009
Loose ends in Liverpool
Reflections from the Walker Art Gallery.
Notebook November 2009
Bartók, Parry & Lord: a flawed legacy
Debunking the myth of "Homeric" Balkan folk songs.
Notebook September 2009
Faking Jane
On Lady Jane Grey & a historical forgery uncovered.
Notebook June 2009
Always in the wrong place
On the relics of oppression.
Notebook May 2009
Bollocks to vulgarity
On lowness that proclaims itself.
Notebook April 2009
Cats may look at kings
On the cult of celebrity.
Notebook March 2009
Boxing with Mailer
On the ignoble science of boxing’s hangers-on.
Notebook October 2008
I.M. Shusha Guppy, 1935-2008
Remembering the Persian expatriate and London editor of the Paris Review.
Notebook September 2008
I.M. Thomas M. Disch, 1940-2008
On the death of the author and poet.