Those who can teach
Remembering the wonderful English actor Richard Griffiths, who died last week aged sixty-five.
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COSTA PRIZE WINNERS
Hilary Mantel, after two Bookers, has won the novel category award for the Costa. The overall winner of the prize will be announced later this month.
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More, please
Enough is as good as a feast. But a feast is as good as enough.
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Insular Cosmopolitan
Publisher Christopher MacLehose remembers a time when emigres were prominent in London publishing and work in translation was far from unusual.
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THEIR INTELLECTUALS AND OURS
An American academic finds the people he meets abroad more interesting and more widely knowledgeable than his colleagues and peers at home.
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FOUR LEGS GOOD
George Orwell’s sister found that while pigs might be wonderful symbols they were also not bad eating.
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THE BEATEN DOCKET
Ideas are not cost-free, argues Ronald Aronson. They have consequences, and we cannot shrug our shoulders about those and say ‘nothing to do with me’.
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DRESSED TRIPE AND TIPSY FIGS
The American writer James Salter, in a piece entitled “Michelin Man” collected in the volume Eat Memory: Great Writers at the Table, traces his first connection with French food to the New York World’s Fair in 1939, which featured a restaurant at the French pavilion that everyone talked about but where few managed to get a…
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WAUGH IN ABYSSINIA
Evelyn Waugh went to Abyssinia as a war reporter in 1935, where he mostly missed the war but thought the Italians were doing a good job of spreading civilisation in darkest Africa.
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PHILIP LARKIN IN WEST BELFAST
The young poet arrived in Ulster’s capital in 1950 and soon got his first glimpse of the province’s great tradition of sectarian politics.