The narrator of The Great Donkey Walk is clearly Lady Chitty. In a bloated and fanciful account of her assault on my privacy she makes no mention of Gay Clifford, contrives to make my garden sound ...
Mick Herron’s Slough House spy thrillers are, by now, one of the least well-kept secrets in espionage fiction. Everyone with even half an eye on the genre knows he’s somewhere near the top. He is ...
Poetry’s purpose is to define and transmit affects, to socialize them by inclusion in the ‘Common Affective World’. But because the word has an irrepressible objective function, poetry contrives an ...