Book review: “Turner” by Peter Ackroyd
“Rockets and Blue Lights (Close At Hand) to Warn Steam Boats of Shoal Water”r In Turner, his short biography of Joseph Mallard William Turner, Peter Ackroyd tells of [...]
“Rockets and Blue Lights (Close At Hand) to Warn Steam Boats of Shoal Water”r In Turner, his short biography of Joseph Mallard William Turner, Peter Ackroyd tells of [...]
Psychiatrist Irv Yalom is 83. I call him Irv because that’s what he asks his psychiatric patients to call him. I picture him as a sprightly firecracker of a guy, [...]
Sometimes, a piece of clothing or an aspect of fashion has a very specific meaning. In her 1981 book The Language of Clothes, Alison Lurie notes that British officials, following [...]
For the North, the goal of the Civil War was to reunite the nation. That’s how Abraham Lincoln defined it and why the northern states rallied behind the effort. Yet, [...]
Many of the books of the Bible are like Hollywood musicals. In Fiddler on the Roof, for instance, the narrative unfolds as characters interact, and, every once in a while, [...]
On the cover of the University of Texas Press edition of Billy Lee Brammer’s 1961 novel The Gay Place is a blurb by David Halberstam: There are two classic American [...]
In Terry Pratchett’s 2011 Discworld novel Snuff, Young Sam Vimes has become very interested in poo. Mainly, this is because Young Sam is six. It’s also because the only son [...]