Morphosis

I’m reading Michael Wood’s On Empson (2017) and enjoying it very much. I am, it's worth saying, an Empson fan of longstanding (both...

“April is the Covid month, breeding Lockdowns out of the dread bug, mixing Boredom and more boredom, watching Netflix with much wine....

There's a consensus among critics and readers that Rebecca West's enormous travelogue, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Thr...

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We all have our projects to help pass the time during lockdown. For some it's knitting, or doing jigsaws, or playing video games—what...

Sir Bors achieved the Holy Grail and so took it home with him. And it was naught but a handled beaker made of hammered tin; And he s...

There's a lot of vagueness about the Virus, of course, and a great deal we don't know. My university closed its doors to face-to...