Eli S. Evans: Is That It

Philip was a great friend of mine. I loved him like a brother and miss him dearly. My collection of his work is not only a personal treasure...

One muses on tactile fabrics as over leaves...

I never knew Pierre-Albert Jourdan, but he was the first person ever to publish my work...

I want some book-buyers to come forward and at any rate state that they have bought a book, with some account of the adventure...

Books always give us something different than expected...

A few years after The Waste Land appeared, Torquemada pioneered the cryptic crossword...

The trauma plot flattens, distorts, reduces character to symptom, and, in turn, instructs and insists upon its moral authority. The solace of its simplicity comes at no little cost...

On or about December 1910 human character changed...

The foundation of good fiction is character-creating, and nothing else...

I well remember the first time I went to the Poetry Bookshop. It was in July, 1913...

Claude McKay offered in Harlem Shadows a genuinely new sensibility in African American and Black Caribbean arts...

Whatever my own hesitations, I usually end up challenging the idea that there are things we must not write about, for fear of giving offense...

On February 2 2022, Ulysses turns 100...

‘And’ is superfluous, omissible. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the regulated couplets of Tang poetry...

The men stayed one year, then another. Where else to go?

My favourite public-house, the Moon Under Water, is only two minutes from a bus stop, but it is on a side-street...