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Eligible Bachelors October 07, 2024
The English writer Rupert Croft-Cooke was onto something when he observed in 1963 that “we are one of the world’s most homosexual races.” My own sense is not that the British are more prone to homosexuality than other peoples but rather that gay men ...
Herd Immunity August 29, 2024
The ordeal is over. Reader, whatever you do with your four-thousand weeks on this plane of absurdity, do not drain four precious weeks in putting a roof over your head in London.This death march, or 'my struggle' as the publishers have cannily titled...
PJ Harvey’s Songs of England August 26, 2024
Opening her late-summer set in Gunnersbury Park, west London, PJ Harvey sang: “Wyman, am I worthy?/Speak your wordle to me.” A pink haze had settled across the sky just before she appeared onstage to the sound of birdsong, church bells, and electroni...
Bonfire of the Humanities August 12, 2024
“I really think that you should read Caledonian Road,” a colleague advised me, soon after the publication of Andrew O’Hagan’s state-of-the-nation novel. “The main character is actually a member of this department.” It sounded more like a warning than...
Bruce Springsteen’s Tour de Force August 12, 2024
LONDON—I have seen rock ‘n’ roll’s past, and its name is still Bruce Springsteen. I have seen Springsteen half a dozen times over five decades, indoors and outdoors, with and without the E Street Band, from the rafters and from the side of the stage....
On Edna O'Brien August 12, 2024
Edna O’Brien, whose Country Girls trilogy was burned on its arrival in 1960, is dead at 93, having died ‘peacefully’ after a long illness. The Country Girls books tell of a girl leaving rural Ireland for school, then Dublin, then London. It’s worth r...
