“Those were the days.” Everyone has heard it, and most have said it. But were they? Particularly in the largely free parts of the world, today invariably exceeds yesterday. Looking back to 100 years ...
MICHAEL HOLROYD’S two-volume Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $21.95) runs to almost 1200 large pages and well beyond half a million words. A performance so ...
London — IF the cellphone had been invented in Lytton Strachey’s time, he would’ve had it plastered to his ear. One can just imagine the highly social writer, a hard-core member of the famous ...
Lytton Strachey is one of the key figures in the cultural life of the 20th Century, and his letters are a literary treasure trove of the man and his world, as well as a record of the startling and ...
Against the dragon, Hunger, strode a new knight last week. Out as Food Minister went Sir Ben Smith, a pottering ex-cabby; in came a more dashing champion, glamorous, aristocratic Evelyn John St. Loe ...
“Those were the days.” Everyone has heard it, and most have said it. But were they? Particularly in the largely free parts of the world, today invariably exceeds yesterday. Looking back to 100 years ...