Threads of defiance

Fashion is gloriously pleasurable to describe but fiendishly difficult to analyse. It is a cultural phenomenon that tugs in two directions—on the one hand, we (and to a greater or lesser extent almost

ADMISSIONS SHADOW WORK Loneliness and the literary ...

TRICKS LITERARY ILLUSIONS Performance magic and Victorian ...

Robert Thicknesse on Opera TO ANY SENSIBLE ...

The piece I’d never part with

Zola’s vivid characters blew his theories off course