Terribly Hush-Hush Review by Jeffrey Meyers Robert Verkaik. The Writer and the Traitor: Graham Greene, Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal. London: Headline Wellbeck, 365p,…
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Jeffrey Meyers, FRSL, has had thirty-three books translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents. He’s published Robert Lowell in Love and The Mystery of the Real: Correspondence with Alex Colville in 2016, Resurrections: Authors, Heroes—and a Spy in 2018.
The Living Cosmos Jeffrey Meyers D.H. Lawrence’s Etruscan Places (posthumously published in 1932), propelled me to the tombs carved out of volcanic rock. The dying…
St. Matthew Passion by Jeffrey Meyers Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s St. Matthew Passion (Medford, MA.: Arrowsmith, 2024, 93p, $18 pb) is her first book since 2010. It’s…
Humbert’s Name in Lolita by Jeffrey Meyers Nomen est omen (the name is a clue) Young nymphets appeared before Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) in the photography…
Joyce’s Politics by Jeffrey Meyers Frank Callanan (1956-2021) was a learned Irish barrister and Joyce scholar, but during his 20 long years of writing James Joyce:…
All Is Speculation Jeffrey Meyers Look here upon this picture, and on this. Hamlet In Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found (Norton, 2025, 370p, $45),…
Complexifying Performativity by Jeffrey Meyers Theatre Picasso. Ed. Rosalie Doubal and Natalia Sidlina. London: Tate Modern, 2025. 128p, £25. The editors say that Picasso’s Three Dancers…
Stranger in a Strange Land Jeffrey Meyers Greenland is in the news. President Trump wants to take over the country. But Denmark, which rules the…
South from Granada by Gerald Brenan (1957). As a teenager in the British Army, Gerald Brenan won a Military Cross in World War I. His…
On a Favorite Hamster, Drowned in an Airport Toilet by Jeffrey Meyers The agent said “no rodents on the plane, No comfort here, he must…
Moment by Jeffrey Meyers Our life conspires to blot out hopes of bliss: Envious rivals, jealous of success, Betrayers whose soft brains have creased A…
by Jeffrey Meyers After teaching in Japan for a year, my wife and I took the long way home through Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, India,…
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