Stoddard Martin

Blind man with sharp vision

Stoddard Martin is impressed by a fictional foray into classical territory.

At the end of a world

Fame and its pursuers

Reviews of Arthur Schnitzler and Late Fame

Review: The Hotel Years

Cultural disease diagnostician

Review: Sylvia

How mad? How true?

Review: Three Faces of an Angel

Prague perspective on life, love and death

Review: The Impossible Exile

Glorious literary career that ended in a death pact

Review: Hotel Andromeda

Gently breaking out of notional boxes

Pulitzer winner in prize form

Singular South American genius

We absorb the work of a woman who 'looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf'

City reveals hidden gems

An illustrated book about the paintings within the home of london's Lord Mayor is an eye-opener

Stripped of conventional, high-cultural aspirations

A provocative art book speaks of a cultural shift and shows 'gorgeous and disturbing' pictures