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“... In February 1976 Hilton Kramer gave his approval to Philip Pearlstein’s ‘remorseless articulation of the authentic’. In November of the following year he alerted his readers to the absence, in the art of David Hockney, of ‘the spiritual quest at the heart of modernism’. Several years later, in June 1981, he gave warning that the stained canvases of Morris Louis, the leading member of the ‘Washington Colour School’, did not represent the breakthrough that other critics had announced ...”

“... In her introduction to Antonia White’s Diaries the editor, her elder daughter Susan Chitty, quite naturally raises the question of whether or not they should have been published at all. But such doubts as she may have had, and conquered, have apparently nothing to do with the amount of coverage her mother’s life needs or justifies ...”

“... country. As a browser, I poked about in it with some interest, noting, for instance, that most of Susan Hill is in the Susan Hill collection at Eton College Library, and that Andrew Motion wrote a letter to E.M. Forster in ‘?1970’ which is under ‘restricted access’ at King’s College Cambridge. But as a ...”

“... and milieu in that it is glancingly but disgracefully anti-semitic: Verelst, who succeeds with Susan where Atwater fails, is ‘dark and had bags under the eyes and rather a thick nose, but the general effect was not bad and he hardly looked like a Jew at all.’ There’s nothing like this anywhere else in Powell’s work.) It’s a funny book, and a ...”

“... rather three – to make an Andromeda, and Elizabeth herself was a powerful unit in a close-knit Compton-Burnett family, who all recognised in their own way the uses of exploiting and being exploited. The sugar fortune which called the father and sons at various times to Jamaica had begun to diminish when the Regency palace built in the Welsh marches was ...”

“... by Robert Armin, published in 1608) derive from mainly English sources – Ronald Firbank, Ivy Compton-Burnett (both high scorers in Susan Sontag’s ‘Notes on “Camp” ’), Henry Green (on whom Ashbery wrote his MA thesis), and perhaps also the Mapp and Lucia series of E.F. Benson, whose comedy operates through a ...”