TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features Lawrence Durrell, “so many towns” that could “become Alexandria” – “founded”, as indeed so many were, “At the doors of Africa”, “Upon a parting”. Yet what other town could boast of anything to compare with that “last pale / Lighthouse”, the Pharos of Alexandria, “like a Samson blinded”?
Family of fabulists
Literary myth-making, from Alexandria to Corfu By Jonathan Keates
‘Celestial walnuts’
The pleasures and challenges of making – and describing – great wines By George Berridge
The path to Rome
Investigating the deathbed conversion of Oscar Wilde By Richard A. Kaye
More, now, again
To what extent are addicts responsible for their actions? By Crispin Sartwell
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