After reading Waste Wars, you will feel quite differently about throwing away a plastic bag or an old mobile phone, let alone an unwanted computer. Where do you think they end up? Alexander Clapp has ...
It didn’t take Thomas Hobbes to convince me that life could be nasty, brutish and short. That was done in November 1956 by the flickering black-and-white images on our family TV. Soviet tanks in ...
The central theme of Republic and Empire is the imperial character of the American Revolution. The Navigation Acts Britain imposed on the American colonies to help pay for the Seven Years’ War ...
Angelica Kauffman was adept with a glass harmonica. Visiting her London studio in 1768, the Danish poet Helfrich Peter Sturz described her eliciting haunting chimes from a set of gradated glasses, ...
That rough beast the Great American Novel has been slouching around since the 19th century in the form of hefty books by male authors, from Melville and Hemingway to Franzen and DeLillo. It’s always ...
‘Impossible.’ Thus spake Martin Amis at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in October: ‘Very few writers have got anywhere with sex.’ Nominees for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award seem to have viewed this ...
It is almost half a century since the last full-length English-language biography of Jean Cocteau was published, and it has taken thirteen years for Claude Arnaud’s work finally to be translated from ...
Born in 1940, Angela Carter has published eight novels including The Magic Toyshop (1967, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Several Perceptions (1968, Somerset Maugham Award), Love (1971), The Infernal ...
In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain Owen Hatherley cast his exhilaratingly miserabilist eye over the Blair era’s ‘regeneration’ of cities such as Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Cardiff ...
IRONY COMES EASY to the dead, who are blessed with both hindsight and foresight; or at least to those of the dead who take an interest. Christopher Columbus, from his perch in the afterlife, has cast ...
War reporters come in many types and guises (and degrees of honesty). John Hersey was at the peak of the profession during the Second World War, rivalled among Americans only by the GIs’ own ...
Max Adams tells his readers very early on that ‘the real Dark Age in British history can be found in Book I of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History’. It is this lacuna, the period between 580 and 710, that ...
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