“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 ...
When Lytton Strachey was asked to propose a toast to his Eminent Victorians, he quoted an eminent Victorian biographer: “When I hear men called ‘judicious’ I suspect them; but when I hear them called ...
Book 16 in the Donald Strachey Mystery Series by Richard Lipez of Becket, who writes under the pen name Richard Stevenson, is "Killer Reunion." Don Strachey mystery novels tuck right in with current ...
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 ...
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 ...