Scattered effects

How Chaucer reshaped English poetry

One of the greatest challenges for a poet is to find something new to say. It’s all been said before. Any poet who manages to find a truly original subject should keep very quiet about it, write the p

The waspish diaries of an establishment insider

The Möbius Book Catherine Lacey (Granta, £16.99) ...

When journalist and author Hunter Davies lost his wife of more than 50 years, the novelist Margaret Forster, he began writing to her instead

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...