Last week I wrote about the complementary lost arts of letter writing and handwriting. Literary correspondence, once such a venerable genre, just hasn’t been the same since the advent of e-mail and text messages. And yet the ep...

Working in London has allowed me many a random celebrity sighting. Those have ranged from the political (the Deputy Prime Minister’s wife and Princess Anne, a more minor royal) to the clerical (former Archbishop of Canterbury R...

Three months ago, I did a post on the perfect book to read in March. And I don’t know why I stopped there! I’ve decided to keep it going and pick a well-suited book for each month to share with you. This month, it&#...