The Bibliophilic Blogger

There he is: the ruin-bibber himself, gazing up into the magnificently restored ironwork of the roof of St Pancras International. Betjeman...

Is there any serious reader who hasn't, at some time, grown exasperated or simply jaded at the unstoppable tsunami of literary criticism...

What was I saying about city patriotism? In Geneva at the weekend (don't mention the words "carbon" and "footprint"...

Dr Johnson's famous dismissal of patriotism as "the last refuge of the scoundrel" was probably meant to refer to the nation st...

I was told off shortly after I launched this blog for not being subjective enough, this being the USP of blogging, so here's a picture ...

Katie Mitchell's latest production, Euripides' bleak tragedy Women of Troy , opens tomorrow night at the National Theatre and I caug...

A refreshing look at modern Greece has just appeared in a memoir by English professor John Lucas. The title refers to a noisy address in th...