A Scottish Paradise
Paradise: Dante’s Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray reviewed
Ian Thomson
Ian Thomson is the author of books including Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Journey Without End.
Thursday
Sunday
A tinpot Caesar
Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch reviewed
Tuesday
Is London Calling Boris Johnson?
Conservatives and the Clash, 40 years on
Wednesday
If only Georges Simenon had been a bit more like Maigret
The pipe-smoking detective’s creator was a sex addict who died rich and lonely in a vast Swiss château
Thursday
The story of the last living survivor of the Atlantic slave trade is a high adventure
Zora Neale Hurston, the African-American novelist-ethnographer, was a luminary of the New Negro Movement, later renamed by American scholars the Harlem Renaissance. ‘Harlemania’ took off in jazz-age New York, as white thrill-seekers danced to Duke Ellington hothouse stomps and enthused over so-called primitive art. Hurston made a ‘black splash’ of her own in 1920s Harlem.
