The Bibliophilic Blogger

Sorry to return again to the subject of literary biography but there was a long article in the Guardian book section on Saturday by Kathryn...

There seems to have been a sudden small eruption of interest in the Victorian traveller, Sir Richard Burton, with a recent TV documentary by...

Back refreshed from my two weeks in Turkey and Greece the padded envelope spills out the latest issue of Slightly Foxed where you can read ...

Reading John Gross, author of The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters, in today's TLS , on the continuing role of the essayist (he was ...

Perhaps the phenomenon of political memoir or "bystander political memoir" is not a worthy subject for a literary blog because it ...

Sorry, that was naughty of me, a catchpenny headline, for poor Frank L is no longer a force in the world of criticism. But the recent ...

The always stimulating blog of Stephen Mitchelmore, This Space, is currently growling [correction: see Stephen's post below, he was not ...