Centaurs of Norbiton

The Atlas of Norbiton is a weekly bulletin from Norbiton: Ideal City of the Failed Life. Unlike its more comprehensive, detailed and discursive mother site, the Anatomy of Norbiton - hailed by Nige as "a thing of strange beauty and wonder, inspired by the South London nowhere known as Norbiton" - the Atlas is intended as a pocket guide to ... Read More...

Film Review: Margin Call

The Epicurean Dealmaker writes anonymously, insightfully and wittily on the world of investment banking, the first because he works in the industry as a senior M&A banker. If you want to understand, and even find amusing, the rarefied and controversial world of high finance you won't do much better than ... Read More...

Pure Unbridled Filth

Readers of a milksop disposition, look away now! for Frank is about to besmirch the pages of The Dabbler with pure unbridled filth... According to John Trevelyan in What The Censor Saw (1973), the following list includes some of the disgusting and morally repugnant subjects rightly banned by the British Board ... Read More...

Carrying a Ladder by Kay Ryan

Nige appreciates female poets in general, and Kay Ryan in particular... Brit once made the observation that I read an awful lot of female novelists. It hadn't really occurred to me, but of course he's right - I do. Why? It's certainly nothing programmatic - it's just that (as it seems to me) for ... Read More...