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Nicholas Goldberg: In defense of long, bug-crushing, Kleenex-box sized novels
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn 2009, author Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize for her 600-plus-page novel "Wolf Hall," the...
The disgusting truth about sex in Georgian London
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoLibertine London is the story of sex in the capital from the Restoration to Jane Austen’s time. It is so dense it could have been a hundred books, but...
Is England really a nation of losers?
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe problem with England, grumble conservatives, is that it hardly exists. We’ve no parliament, no costume, no anthem; even our flag was recently...