John Haffenden

"Deciphering Dame Muriel" Frances Wilson, says Miranda Seymour, is "notable for the boldness, quicksilver intelligence, and originality of her interpretations of writers as diverse as D.H. Lawrence, Thomas de Quincey, and Dorothy Wordsworth" nybooks.com/articles/2026/… via @nybooks

@LearNonsense Superb sketches, Sara. Great talent.

Our two cats, like most cats, like to get in the way of my journal when I’m writing. I sometimes take advantage of the sketching opportunity, and they find their way into the book.

The birthday #otd in 1887 of Sylvia Beach (died 1962), she became an American in Paris who with her friend Adrienne Monnier created the bookshop Shakespeare & Company which encouraged and helped to define the literary lifestyle of the 1920s.

You know the author. Meet the typist. - Harvard Gazette - goo.gl/alerts/2HPs6x #GoogleAlerts

Coming on 7 May...

@djtaylorwriter I had wondered, David. Still chuckling.

@johnhaffenden I plead guilty to this!

Hilariously good "Private Eye" parody of the "Letters of T. S. Eliot." Even better of my annotations. (Parody is the sincerest form of flattery.)

Stefan Collini · Capital Brandy: Eliot on the Run - London Review of Books - goo.gl/alerts/dh4MSo #GoogleAlerts

Warm thanks to Stefan Collini for his fine review of the Letters of T. S. Eliot vol 10 in the London Review of Books, 19 Mar: "Previous volumes of this sumptuous edition have been praised for the excellence of their presentation and annotation, and that high standard continues."

This tree in London looks full of leaves but is actually covered in parakeets.

@becimay Possibly there is another reason... ? ☺️

Because I am an artist, every time I describe my book I say it is about something it isn’t really about

Vaguely tempted by the Alberto Giacometti exhibition at the Barbican ... but my sorry feeling today is that he really is something of a one-trick bony.

@zrucker5 Terrific piece, Zoe. Great going. And thank you!

@johnhaffenden Thanks John! Appreciate it!

Editorializing Englishness: T. S. Eliot, John Middleton Murry, and Interwar National Identity academic.oup.com/res/article/77…

Just arrived: one of Empson’s I’ve not read yet ❤️

Liverpool Street development approved despite claims it will ‘disfigure’ heritage site towerhamletsslice.co.uk/whitechapel/li…

An announcement from last week: ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a… It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the Institute of Advanced Studies on 31 July 2026.

King's academic appointed as Jonathan Cape poetry editor | King's College London - goo.gl/alerts/KaEZi1 #GoogleAlerts

Dear Bill: the author of the Lord of the Flies and his editor thetablet.co.uk/books/dear-bil…

The Waste Land wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/the-w…