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Books
March 12, 2014
Travel has been around since Adam and Eve were forced to leave the Garden of Eden Noah built an ark and Abram also on God rsquo s instructions took a look at all of the land before his eyes Travel writing was invented by Homer and Virgil and the Synoptic Gospels may have helped revive the genre
Books
March 12, 2014
There have been many famous letters and letter-writers in history One thinks immediately of Cicero who made it an art form Then of course we have St Paul who filled his letters to early Christian communities with advice and doctrine news from the front and occasional scoldings One also thin
Books
December 10, 2013
Two new books on Pope Francis; neither can be considered a true biography.
Books
June 20, 2013
I recently traveled to the London Book Fair, and I stayed in Bloomsbury, the area in central London that over half a century ago was the heart of British publishing. Over the course of four days I visited the crisp and well-appointed London Review of Books bookshop across from the British Museum, as
Books
March 27, 2013
“Nobody ever wrote a more unaffectedly elegant English,” a critic once wrote of Evelyn Waugh.
Arts & Culture Books
January 23, 2013
Graham Greene has had more malevolent biographers than anyone is due.
Film
December 24, 2012
Frank Capra's 'It's a Wonderful Life' offers a profound understanding of the Gospels.
Books
November 19, 2012
Charles Dickens and the London poor
Ideas
July 02, 2012

Learning from India's greatest poet

Film
May 21, 2012

The sad silliness of 'The Five Year Engagement'