1 May, 2017
“A subsisting and alas! self-seeking me”
Nicolas Liney reviews a welcome new biography of the prolific life- and letter-writer, Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Category: Letters
22 February, 2016
Listen Up, white America
Dominic Davies compares Ta-Nehisi Coates to his great predecessor James Baldwin.
29 April, 2013
Old Possum and the Parrots
Life begins (again) at 40 for a tired T. S. Eliot in the latest volume of his letters, as Jeremy Diaper discovers.
14 November, 2011
Pulverizing the Pretty Charlock
The second volume of Samuel Beckett's Letters documents the writer's correspondences during the Second World War.
16 May, 2011
Larkin in Love
Anthony Thwaite's Letters to Monica reveals affection and the quotidian in Larkin's correspondence with Monica Jones.
31 January, 2011
Between Fiction and Autobiography
Saul Bellow's Letters exhibits a vitalising honesty, but conceals the deeper affections of the novelist's spirit.
17 January, 2011
Scriblomania
Two new collections of Bronté's writings contain the passion, conflict, and torment of the Bronté Myth.
