“Maus” is a narrative of Spiegleman, the author, interviewing his father about his direct experience of the Holocaust and of Auschwitz. Although it’s not without its humour, “Maus” is, unsurprisingly, […]

The Larkin poem ‘Born Yesterday’, which he wrote for the one-day-old Sally Amis wishing her, not beauty or genius, but just an ‘average of talents’. It’s very taking, especially in […]