Illustrations, reviews (mostly bookish) and other scribblings. Subscribe to the fortnightly dispatch at one’s peril (or delight).
To Ella, With Love
On the glorious, radical, beautiful, mysterious First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald
The Non-Pareil
On the exquisite perfection of Lorraine’s Date Tart and I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.
Savage Fury: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Room of One’s Own
Who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?
