Dearest Bun
Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica Edited by Anthony Thwaite (Faber & Faber, 475 pp., $49.50) I. READ MORE >>
Glitterings
Swiche Glaringe Eyen
To the Poems!
According to one of Constantine Cavafy’s friends—a claim twice cited in this noticeably slim volume—Cavafy “abjured three activities: giving lectures, granting interviews, and writing prose.” Though he does indeed seem to have kept scrupulously clear of the first two, his archived papers, plus pieces rescued from various newspapers and periodicals, show that he intermittently—and, it must be said, unwisely—broke his own third rule. READ MORE >>
And All I Ask is a GPS
The Stranger From Within
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies By John Carey (Free Press, 573 pp., $32.50) READ MORE >>
The Stranger From Within
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The Land of Lost Content
The Letters of A.E. Housman Edited by Archie Burnett (Oxford University Press, 2 volumes, 643 pp. and 585 pp., $330) I. READ MORE >>
Drink and the Old Devil
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The Siegfried Line
SIEGFRIED SASSOON: A LIFE By Max Egremont (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 597 pp., $27) I. READ MORE >>
