Sunday, June 30, 2013

Summoning The Muse

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . Ah, the artist’s life. Behold the lonely garret, the pacing of the floor, the looking up a...
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Sunday, June 23, 2013

The Curious Case Of Don Pablo Neruda

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . It’s been almost 40 years since Pablo Neruda, "the first great poet of the Spanish lang...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

The Novella As Suicide Note

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . One of the most moving things Virginia Woolf wrote was the suicide note to her husband Leona...
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Sunday, June 9, 2013

The Bookshelf As A City

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . Consider the bookshelf. At first glance, just a receptacle for books, to make sure ...
Sunday, June 2, 2013

Gandhi's Experiments With Reading

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This week's Sunday Guardian column On a winter’s day in 1904, four wagons, each pulled by 16 oxen, set off from Durban with a loa...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

Flying The Literary Skies

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . According to a recent report in AdAge, an international airline is planning to “curate” a se...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Reading In A Time Of Distraction

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . This column isn’t about what I thought it would be about. Last week, I picked up a new ant...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

John Williams's Novel Of Everyday Heroism

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This week's   Sunday Guardian column It made only a few waves when it was published almost 50 years ago, but now, a novel by an Am...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

Giving Novelists A Kick Start

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This week's Sunday Guardian column. Zach Braff was in the news this week for raising over $2 million in less than five days to ma...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Kate Atkinson's Cascade of Echoes

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . You set off for a destination to find the way blocked so you return to your starting point a...