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Raine and Snow

• December 14, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Arts, Britain
Tags: Art, Craig Raine, Literature, Monet, Poetry, Shakespeare, snow, transfiguration, winter

At Prussia Cove

• May 31, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Britain
Tags: A Room With A View, dancing, E M Forster, Literature, love, Music, Prussia Cove, the sea

The Good-Morrow

• April 30, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Arts, Britain
Tags: Art, chamber music, Cornwall, fulfillment, IMS, interpretation, John Donne, Literature, love, Music, Poetry, Prussia Cove, the sea, Theatre

Video: More on William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives

• January 12, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Arts, India
Tags: India, Literature, new aesthetic, Nine Lives, non-fiction, pluralism, short story, William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives

• December 17, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Arts, India
Tags: Balvinder Singh, Buddhism, City of Djinns, Dalai Lama, devadasi, Hinduism, In Serach of the Sacred in Modern India, In Xanadu, India, Jain nun, Jainism, Literature, Mataji, McLeod Ganj, monk, Nine Lives, pluralism, Prayogmati, Rajasthan, religion, sallekhana, The Nun's Tale, the writer, travel writing, William Dalrymple

Book Review: Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn and Patrick McCabe’s The Holy City

• October 4, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Arts
Tags: Art, Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín, Eilis Lacy, Fiction, Henry James, Ireland, Irish, Jane Austen, Literature, Patrick McCabe, Persuasion, The Holy City, The Portrait of a Lady, unknowable