Reconsiderations February 2021
Isabel Colegate endures
On the eighty-nine-year-old novelist’s best books.
Department: “Reconsiderations”
Reconsiderations January 2021
James Laver’s eighteenth-century air
On the British author, curator & fashion historian.
Reconsiderations December 2020
More lasting than bronze
On the many translations of a famous ode by Horace.
Reconsiderations November 2020
A sergeant abroad
On the American socialite and expatriate Stuart Preston.
Reconsiderations June 2020
The woman who saw the future
On Anna Bowman Dodd and The Republic of the Future.
Reconsiderations May 2020
Anyone for Peter De Vries?
On the career of the largely forgotten novelist.
Reconsiderations March 2020
A romantic anti-romantic
On the overlooked works of Hugo Charteris.
Reconsiderations February 2020
No flash in the pan
On the beloved brainchild of George MacDonald Fraser.
Reconsiderations January 2020
Chasing Nabokov
On Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy.
Reconsiderations November 2019
Journal of a conflicted man
On the last words of W. N. P. Barbellion.