Aficionados of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves novels will be aware that black tie (tuxedo for our American cousins) was considered for most of the twentieth century … Read More ›
Author: Peter Blair
Peter Blair teaches English Literature and is a senior leader at a boarding school. Educated at the Glasgow Academy and the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge, he is probably the only banjo-playing High Church Anglican Scotsman in existence. He writes to explore the metaphysical in an increasingly materialistic world.
I confess here and now to a heresy of the gravest theological and ecclesiological ramifications. I enjoyed The Rings of Power. Perhaps I should define … Read More ›
Rare among my countrymen, I love America. I love its open spaces and great cities; I love much of its culture and its music (I … Read More ›
Last year when I took part in a podcast on the nature of literature, the subject of “the most underrated” literature came up. My immediate … Read More ›