A wound that will not close

Reminiscences Joe Brainard I Remember 208pp. Daunt. ...

A freewheeling Cavafy for modern times

BOHEMIANS A BLOOMSBURY INGÉNUE The lives ...

There are many reasons that an artist’s ambitions can be thwarted, including the decision to become a teacher. Later this month, an exhibition will shine a light on talent obscured by a career in the classroom

Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive

Edge of the Storm Works by Bacewicz, Britten and Weinberg Telegraph Quartet Azica Records ACD-71381 74:08 mins The turbulent, destabilising and demoralising impact of the Second World War hovers uneas