At the moment we are reading (or should I say, my wife is reading to me) C.S. Lewis’ “Chronicles of Narnia”. Somehow I missed out on these when I was a child. In fact, my parents had little idea at all about literature for children, and once I had learned to read I navigated on … Read more
As regular visitors to this blog will know, my favourite regular reading is the London Review of Books. My attention was held in the latest edition by an article about the American writer Linda Nochlin. I had never heard of her before …. which is poetically significant at least because, as I discovered, one of … Read more
The task of reviewing some of my old material has been extremely interesting. In one respect it called to mind C.S. Lewis’ account of children discovering the hidden land of Narnia by going through an old wardrobe and coming out the other side into an unexpected place. This metaphor came to mind today when I … Read more