The remarkable story of Mabel the hawk, another fine Sarah Waters, and looking into Nicolson’s Homer
The remarkable story of Mabel the hawk, another fine Sarah Waters, and looking into Nicolson’s Homer
Susan Cooper’s England is uncanny. For Robert Macfarlane, it has been a lasting inspiration
The first English version of Montaigne’s essays inspired England’s greatest playwright
A man who wrote “romptious” prose that revels in mess and mischief
Susan Cooper’s England, as presented in “The Dark is Rising” (1973), is uncanny
A novelistic history of a mining family, and fiction set in wartime Europe and 21st-century New York
A “literary cabaret” in a Manhattan restaurant is the pick of the summer talks
Simon Willis finds a man who collects hoverflies, unlocking a world of wonder