johnshaplin

Judging by pictures on postcards, one would think that the great musicians had been gods, not men. But now I learned that the world’...

[ The novelist Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. Moments after the announcement, the literary world embarked ...

No doubt a large part of what we do in this life ends up as quite trifling matters- projects, customs, conventions, habits, ceremonies...

[Theodora Bosanquet was Henry James' secretary from 1907 until his death in 1916.] He asked   no questions about my speed on t...