What to do when your maid drowns
Inspired by the hoo-ha about the new version of Upstairs, Downstairs, Peter York, that fabled trend guru, rings to ask me about servants these days. Not a subject I know much about, as Mary, who looks...
View ArticleTelevising Proust's epic novel would never be a cakewalk
Proust is something of a shibbboleth and undoubtedly a behemoth. If you haven't read the 12 volumes of A la recherche, then you don't know much about French culture, the dogma goes. Now French state...
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