How TS Eliot found happiness
Withdrawn and prejudiced, the poet is hard to warm to – but Robert Crawford’s new biography shows how Eliot’s second marriage transformed his life.
By
Erica Wagner is a New Statesman contributing writer.
Withdrawn and prejudiced, the poet is hard to warm to – but Robert Crawford’s new biography shows how Eliot’s second marriage transformed his life.
By Erica WagnerThe life and legacy of the poet and New Statesman literary editor, who has died at the age of…
By Erica WagnerWhat is most disturbing in Blake Bailey’s biography is not Roth’s behaviour, but his biographer’s apparently unthinking alignment with…
By Erica WagnerAlexandria falls into the now well-established genre of “cli-fi” novels: dystopias that engage directly with the hell we are…
By Erica WagnerA doctor's odyssey is a reminder of the trials and wonders of solitude.
By Erica WagnerA new exhibition at the British Museum reveals the power – and the precariousness – of the Arctic.
By Erica WagnerA new study of the destruction of knowledge explores how societies depend on fragile archives.
By Erica WagnerThe novel begins in 1967, in the clubs of London's psychedelic music scene, as the band find their groove…
By Erica WagnerParis was first published one hundred years ago by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press – two years before…
By Erica Wagner