Michael Haag

A clue to understanding The Alexandria Quartet. I can think of several instances where a writer has written one thing and this has bee...

Wish you were here. One of our great achievements in recent years has been the narrowing of our world, the growing number of places we c...

Dilys Powell With the Lawrence Durrell conference planned for Crete in 2016 this seems like a good moment to post my obituary of Dilys P...

The International Lawrence Durrell Society will be holding its biennial conference in Rethymnon, Crete, next year. Second century BC silv...

Celebrating 'OXI' in Syntagma Square, Athens, 5 July 2015. In an earlier post I said I agreed with Nanos Valaoritis that '...

Michael Haag talking with Gaston Zananiri in Paris in 1996. After I wrote Alexandria: City of Memory I was asked by an academic, one wh...

Saint-Raphael in the South of France 1939. I was about to use this old postcard to write a note to a friend when I took a closer loo...

Constantine Cavafy's cousin Maria Zambaco by her lover Edward Burne-Jones. Constantine Cavafy’s adolescence in England has long bee...

This is the cover for The Quest for Mary Magdalene which will be published next year by Harper Collins in America and Profile Books in B...

The Fitzroy Tavern this evening. London enjoyed a warm Friday evening today with people spilling onto the pavements from every pub I pas...

Islamic State on its way to Palmyra. The Independent on Sunday published this article of mine some years ago, so long ago in fact that...