In the conclusion to his immense tome, The Culture of the Europeans, Donald Sassoon has one of those brief apercus that…
ASL
I know nothing about the technical side of film. On the (very) few occasions that I actually write about film…
The Nature of the Beast
My slow, steady progress through Donald Sassoon’s monumental but unfailingly fascinating The Culture of the Europeans continues to throw up extraordinary…
Standing on the shoulders of giants
We like to think of ourselves as living in the digital age. It’s a title that makes us feel more…
The more it stays the same
The more literary and cultural history I read, the more I find exactly the same patterns recurring. One such pattern…
The cultural machine
I have started reading Donald Sassoon’s monumental The Culture of the Europeans (1,400 pages not counting notes, I may be…