E.B. White

An elegy for New York

28 September 2019 9:00 am

New York The master of the love letter to New York, E.B. White, eloquently described the city as a place…

Illustration by Arthur Rackham for Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle

Beyond the looking-glass

4 June 2016 9:00 am

Children’s fantasy literature has never been just one thing. Animal fables, folk and fairy tales were not originally intended for…

High life

9 April 2016 9:00 am

   New York Even after all these years, I’m still at times floored by the scale of the place. And…

Left to right: Wolcott Gibbs, Dorothy Parker and James Thurber.

A touch of class

2 January 2016 9:00 am

The New Yorker has always been revered for the supreme quality of its writing, says Philip Hensher

High life

6 June 2015 9:00 am

The last week in Gotham was exceptional fun. I saw a Broadway play, Finding Neverland, compliments of the producer, my…