Most of us are in dire straits in lockdown, confined with cabin fever and wanderlust. We’ve followed the rules to the letter, only leaving home where necessary and avoiding beloved friends and family. Yet while many of us haven’t ventured past the garden gate since March, a curious phenomenon taunts us: the planes in the sky. … Read more
MEMOIR THE STATE OF DISBELIEF by Juliet Rosenfeld (Short Books £12.99, 192 pp) Forty-eight hours after Juliet Rosenfeld’s husband died of lung cancer, she lay back on her psychoanalyst’s couch and attempted to ‘process’ her loss. As a practising psychoanalyst herself, she had attended five personal therapy sessions per week for eight years and was … Read more
What do you do after a lavish dinner of deer tartar, steaming pork knuckle and dumplings, topped off with apple strudel, washed down with Austrian red wine and a parting shot of mountain firewater? Why, you wobble out into the darkness of the Austrian Alps, don a crash helmet, say ‘Danke’ to a grizzled man … Read more