A story in chess lore involves the great Danish Jewish player Aron Nimzowitsch, who, at a tournament in the mid-1920s, found ...
It's usually the food that comes in for a pummelling from restaurant critic William Sitwell. But on his recent visit to ...
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Nothing,’ said Vladimir Nabokov, ‘revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it’. If smell is ...
Perhaps about the third reading it dawned on me that Stephen was, after all, a bit of a prig; and to that extent I no longer identified myself with him. (How could I?) Quite a while later I ...
I liked this piece (by someone who "voted reluctantly for Harris"), and thought I'd pass it along. An excerpt: How, indeed, did Democrats lose so badly, ...
It was only on his journey home that he realised what offence he had caused: “I felt like a right prig; I dishonoured the lamb and my relatives.” After this he decided he would eat high ...
A photographer with joyful work in a traditionally po-faced art world isn't shut out any more – but whether to sell through ...
"The blue-eyed Nathaniel," as D. H. Lawrence called him, was not the prig he tried to be. By the time the full complexity of Hawthorne's mind was made clear to scholars in our time, it was because ...
And Douggie McMeekin plays a dim and tedious prig named Tindaro, who uses his riches to fund his hypochondria. He travels ...