Thursday Picture – Liseuse
Liseuse, Lucien Pissarro
Month: August 2018
Top Ten Novels Set In Oxford
Oxford has been my adoptive home for the past four wonderful years. The city is not without its flaws but for me, it has been true love since the earliest […]
Saturday Poem – The Reader
I love this poem – the poet’s sister sounds an awful lot like me. I miss that sense of complete immersion that one gets from reading when a child, when […]
Thursday Picture – The Reader
The Reader, Frank Weston Benson
Discussion: Exploding the Canon
Lately, I have been suffering from an entirely new condition – canonical ambivalence. I came up with it myself. I define it as the state of being dissatisfied with whether […]
Review: Greatest Hits, Laura Barnett
Laura Barnett’s debut came via The Versions of Us, telling the love story of Eva and Jim through three different possibilities. It is hardly surprising that her follow-up is another high-concept […]