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by Ian Collins (Yale £25, 384 pp) At last! An artist who had a happy childhood! The Craxtons of 8 Grove End Road, St John’s Wood sound like a delightfully bohemian 1920s bunch: musical parents, five sons, one daughter, piano played, trees climbed, guests visiting for a week and staying for four years, family holidays spent in a converted Army hut on the beach in Sussex. The only fly in the ointment was that fourth son John — the subject of Ian Collins’s evocative biography of the artist ...

Viaje a Grecia CULTURA/S Una aproximación al país heleno con algunas obras literarias que recrearon su magia, De Platón a Kazantzakis o Gerald Durrell   Cristina Spanò En las líneas finales de su breve ensayo On not knowing Greek (1925), Virginia Woolf escribió que regresamos a los griegos cuando estamos cansados de la vaguedad y de la confusión de nuestra época. Desde los quince años la autora británica había dedicado muchas horas y esfuerzos a aprender el griego clásico. En aqu...

Xu Xi, novelist Xu Xi is in the habit of dividing her time between New York, Hong Kong and, well, the world, and has long advocated a "transnational approach" to literature. Sequestered in upstate New York during the pandemic, she hasn't found adapting to sedentary life easy. And, she says, she longs for Southeast Asia. "Although I was born in Hong Kong, I travelled for years on an Indonesian passport, which was funny because I couldn't speak...

“PEOPLE say that the sign of a thriving town is to have an independent bookshop on the high street,” says Mike Sansbury, manager of The Grove Bookshop, which for more than 40 years has sat proudly on its corner spot in Ilkley’s most well-known and elegant street. “If not an independent bookshop then Waterstones is the next best thing. A bookshop brings together people who all have different interests to browse and buy books. There is a special atmosphere in a bookshop.” Opened i...

I met him only once. It was 21 years ago, in Athens, Greece, on the occasion of a speech he gave growing out of his wartime exploits as a British special agent serving with Greek resistance fighters in German-occupied Crete. At the time of the talk he was a world-famous author, traveler, and cultural and historical polymath. And what should have been, for me, the pleasure of a long-anticipated conversation about his singular brand of literary magic turned instead to dismay and embarrassment on ...

Begins, patrick leigh he said that ag sessions should be there instead and not rosenstein. he had some tough words for sessions. >> i do have questions for the attorney general. i want to know why he has provided false testimony to me and to senator franken. i want to know if why hes recused on the russia investigation, he played any role in the dismissal of fbi director comey. >> jon: herridge is live from the heart skybox on capitol hil capitol hill. >> the last few minutes, weve had to change...