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The audience for this will be vanishingly small but yesterday I mentioned the website about Frank Sargeson and the Sargeson Trust I have be...

To Auckland yesterday for a meeting with an author I’m editing, a long lunch with writer friends followed by a martini with my favourite big...

Hear him sing, hear him roar, even hear him whistle – but can he dance?: Danny Gawlowski reports in the Seattle Times : Everyday is a ...

The children are in bed and my wife is at her book club so I can do what I want. Stratocaster abuse, drugs, hookers – you name it. So, hedon...

The great philosopher of science was born in Vienna on 28 July 1902 and died in London on 17 September 1994. He taught philosophy ...

Nick Cohen on the racism of the respectable , expanding on this report from the BBC. Money quote: Britain made female genital mutilation ...

Two lovely tributes from Jolisa Gracewood at Public Address and Elizabeth Knox at her blog. John Dix says that Margaret’s story   “The Pr...

Seven reasons not to do work for free. Kitty Wells, i.m. This TLS review of Peter Clarke’s Mr Churchill’s Profession (the title ...

In the 14 July issue the Economist reports on religious consumerism : Last year sales of religious books in America grew by 8% in a decli...

Well, honestly, what else would you call this line from Henry Newbolt’s “He Fell Among Thieves”?: He felt her trembling speed and the thra...