The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". Th...

PLEASE NOTE: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS With a sort of trepidation, I have next to my computer keyboard a copy of the Penguin Book of First World War Poet...

It was January 16, 2017, and we were in the pit of winter. The huge buildings of South Kensington- the Museums, the high terraced housing, the embassies- cou...

Often, Africans are portrayed as an anonymous mass without individuality - for example, in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’, which is set along the Congo ...

Baudelaire, in ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’, is Janus- like. He looks forwards, and he looks backwards. His verse forms are, on the whole, traditional- there is somet...

Mid- December had arrived in South Kensington, and winter was descending upon buildings and streets, as if it could swallow up everything in its chilled maw....

It was February the sixteenth in South Kensington, only a short while after Valentine’s Day, and maybe wisps still remained of the atmosphere of ‘love’, if l...