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Central Lee Community School District provided its students with a unique opportunity to experience a natural phenomenon by allowing them to observe Monday’s partial solar eclipse during the school day.

In an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, the author recalls his 1970s conquest of London's ink-stained thickets, some disastrous "research" with Martin Amis at a New York bordello, and encounters with everyone from Ian McEwan to Thomas Pynchon to Margaret Thatcher

A generation of bold, sexually liberated and gender transgressive Bright Young Things in the 1920s and 30s rejuvenated the ageing Bloomsbury set

Holed up in a freezing Army camp in the far north of Scotland in 1941, the shivering and lonely young music critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor dreamed up the idea of living down South with like-minded friends after the war. He envisaged a pretty house with a piano, books, gramophone records, shabby armchairs, pictures and sparkling conversation round the dinner table. It came to pass, just as he had hoped. In spring 1945, he and two friends — music critic Eddy Sackville-West, cousin of Vita, and art...

Mitford, Garbo and a dodgy septic tank: inside Englands last great literary salon Why did everyone from Graham Greene to Benjamin Britten flock to rural Dorset? To meet the Crichel Boys 14 February 2021 • 12:00pm ‘Prose factory’: the rectory at Long Crichel, Dorset Credit: David Grandorge Nancy Mitford, a regular visitor to Long Crichel, a Queen Anne rectory in Dorset, called the house “a prose factory” and its owners “the Brontës”. For Rosamond Lehmann, a visit was one of her �...

A World-Class Writer and a World-Class Freeloader Sybille Bedford, at right, in Normandy with Allanah Harper, a lover turned friend and provider.Credit...via the Sybille Bedford Estate Buy Book ▾ By Brooke Allen By Selina Hastings Sybille Bedford is not a household name, but among her coterie of admirers in Europe and America she is held in high esteem. Her reputation rests upon a relatively slim literary output over the course of a long life (1911-2006): notably, four works of fiction (three...