Friday, 27 February 2015

The Alexandria Quartet Exhibition at the Hellenic Centre, London

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Andreas Georgiadis, an Athenian artist, has made a collection of pen and ink drawings illustrating the Alexandria of Lawrence Durrell...
Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Dark Age for Everyone without a Mummified Crocodile - or at Least a Mummified Ibis

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Amenophis III never went anywhere without a crocodile. A year ago I wrote about mummified crocodiles and how we are losing our memories...
Tuesday, 27 January 2015

The News from Greece

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Nanos Valaoritis at his home in Athens. I have mentioned Nanos Valaoritis before.  He was a friend of George Seferis and he knew both H...
Monday, 29 December 2014

Mary Magdalene and Other Postcards

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Suicide Oak, New Orleans. I received this old postcard today and was struck by the caption, Suicide Oak, City Park, New Orleans. I won...
Saturday, 20 December 2014

An English Christmas in New England

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An English Christmas would not be complete with a good murder or two. My friends in Connecticut, Jon Buller and Susan Schade, are having...
Tuesday, 9 December 2014

French Impressionism and London Suburbia

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Pissarro's painting of St Stephen's Church in 1870. Looming in the background is the flank of the Crystal Palace. Not o...
Sunday, 30 November 2014

Emile Zola and Lawrence Durrell: Elegant, Dead and Erotic in Upper Norwood

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The Crystal Palace was home to the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, London. I mentioned in an earlier post that while flying ove...
Thursday, 6 November 2014

Only the City is Real: Lawrence Durrell’s Journey to Alexandria

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Only the City is Real: Lawrence Durrell's Journey to Alexandria , by Michael Haag, was originally published in Alif: Journal of Comparat...