W.H. Davies

Feeling Listless

Some years ago, I asked the owner of the Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, the only specialist secondhand poetry store in Britain, whether he had any books by poets with one leg. He said, perhaps not surprisingly, that it was the first time that he had ever been asked the question. I knew of only two, W.E. Henley and W.H. Davies, and since I was ...

Taki’s Top Drawer

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Irish Gall

Are the Irish racist? Do they eat potatoes, bacon, and cabbage every day, play the fiddle, and reject all change, as a controversial new school ...

AGENT 00-ZERO

After yet another assassination attempt on Donald Trump -- or as The New York Times calls it, "what the FBI is calling an assassination attempt" -- ...

Kamala Harris

Explain Yourself, Kamala Harris!

So we've been through an entire debate, and Kamala Harris still hasn't explained any of her extraordinary policy flip-flops. I'm sorry, a person ...

Dachau, Germany

“Gimme Yo Cats, Bitch!”

If occasionally my columns seem to wander, it’s because sometimes the story itself wanders. A columnist can write by-the-numbers drivel (see ...

Gap of Dunlop, Ireland

Eddie Murphy Is Not an Irishman

You know how a doddery old white Irishman, Joe Biden, has just been pushed aside and replaced by a thrusting, younger, more coffee-colored ethnic ...

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