The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine.
In this issue: Norma Clarke enjoys the letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle • Samuel Saloway-Cooke joins Delia in the kitchen • Ysenda Maxtone Graham sympathizes with E. M. Delafield’s Provincial Lady • Robin Blake toughs it out with Simenon • Nigel Andrew remembers some stirring narrative verse • Flora Neville relishes the dark stories of Edward Gorey • Alex Woodcock learns his trade as a stonemason Richard Smyth unpicks the art of the cryptic crossword • Adam Sisman has the last laugh with Lucky Jim • Felicity James remembers the world of John Updike’s Couples, and much more besides . . .
I Too Am Here • NORMA CLARKE on The letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Making the Best of It • YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM on E. M. Delafield, Diary of a Provincial Lady
Something Cooking • SAM LEITH on Robert B. Parker’s Spencer stories
A Very Good Egg • SAMUEL SALOWAY-COOKE on Delia Smith, Delia’s Complete Illustrated Cookery Course
Stiff Martinis and Bitter Marriages • FELICITY JAMES on John Updike, Couples
AS Old as the Hills • JONATHAN LAW on James Hawes, The Shortest History of England
Not Just for Christmas • ANDY MERRILLS on J. J. Abrams & Doug Dorst, S.
Something in the Dust • ALEX WOODCOCK on Seamus Murphy, Stone Mad
The Hard Stuff • ROBIN BLAKE on Georges Simenon, The Snow Was Dirty
Ingerlond Their Ingerlond • BOYD TONKIN on Julian Rathbone, Kings of Albion
Getting It Right • RICHARD SMYTH on D. S. Macnutt, Ximenes on the Art of the Crossword
Paradise Lost • FLORA WATKINS on Barbara Vine, A Fatal Inversion
Dublin Shades • PATRICK HUDSON on Anthony Cronin, Dead as Doornails
Looking on the Dark Side • FLORA NEVILLE on Edward Gorey, The Dwindling Party & The Gashleycrumb Tinies
Adademic Angst • Adam Sisman on Kinglsey Amis, Lucky Jim
Into the Wilderness • CHRISTINE WHITTEMORE on Carys Davies, West
Shaving with My Father • NIGEL ANDREW on reciting stirring narrative verse
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
