.. as you get to know Europe   slowly, tasting the wines,   cheeses and characters of the   different countries you begin   to ...

So many of them went out walking, so many of them untentative. If a cadence is native to the English, is it the footfall, sheddin...

               My first letters about finding and mov-                ing into my house were vivid, but then                as I set...

      There are lights in which none of us is at our best.     Stuart Hampshire observed that S.I.S. ...

For me, it would have to be an improbably good book, to have anything to do with a year just ending, a fash- ion just emerging, a ...

   Straying from customary context,   and leaping whole hedgerows of   principled discernment in cock-   tails, one could not miss tha...

There were moments, as I was wind- ing up a Wodehouse this weekend,  when I turned to Thorny in alarm at my convulsions, to warn I might...

.. a man who from his earliest years has said that the heavens and the earth are one, .. and that the earth may mingle with t...