She arrived in America in 1807 as a refugee from Napoleonic France. Her sketches of the world she encountered there must show what Madame de la Tour du Pin a decade earlier. A lovely book.
An A-Z of horrors, compulsions and pleasures. We hope it includes galanthomania, in honour of a customer on whom we dote, who only travels in pursuit of snowdrops.
The idea that our ancestors turned from the hunted to the hunter; Calasso dazzles as ever; a rich evocation of the relationship of humans on the cusp of being and animals that were also bein... read more