In this centenary month of the sinking of the Titanic we welcome Mark Richardson, literary professor and blogger, on a poem that dips into deep and strange waters to quite astonishing effect. Thomas Hardy first published The Convergence of the Twain in the program printed for a "Dramatic and Operatic Matineé in Aid ... Read More...
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Guest art reviewer Sophie Whenham admires a revival of traditional drawing techniques amongst some young British artists... A recent article by Jonathan Jones entitled Get up and demand better British art prompted me to think about the contemporary art scene: for many people, so much of it is inaccessible, incomprehensible and unoriginal. And the hysteria surrounding some exhibitions ... Read More...
A special treat for Francophiles and lovers of art and architecture... These wonderful images are taken from a new book Catherine Brennand’s France. Catherine was an award-winning water-colourist with a special love of architecture. Diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2002 she continued to paint full time through two courses of chemotherapy before ... Read More...
Those of you who have yet to purchase a subscription to the excellent magazine Slightly Foxed(the real reader's quarterly) should do so now, because the current edition features The Dabbler's editor Brit writing racily about Flashman. Buy it now! In the meantime, here's an excerpt from the very first edition of ... Read More...
As the Leveson Inquiry trundles interminably on, guest poster Michael Noble (aka @Contact_Light) revisits Evelyn Waugh's classic novel about hack behaviour... One of the favoured resorts of tabloidese is the word ‘tragic’, easily inserted into a pithy headline, or appended as an adjective. It would be all too tempting also to apply ... Read More...
The Marshman Chronicles’ Gareth Rees interviews Charlie Tuesday Gates about buried hamsters, boiled crabs and veganism. What The Dabbler needs, I announced to myself one day, is a rough guide to turning dead animals into art. And with that I jumped on a bus from Clapton to Stamford Hill to talk to artist ... Read More...
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...
Brit the Elder has been busy again, fashioning a mind-bending new quiz for you whizzes, which we're calling a Cryptic Hypergram (well why not?). Comments are off, but send your answer to editorial@thedabbler.co.uk by this time next week and we'll sort you out with a prize if your name is drawn...Good ... Read More...
If you're looking for a Christmas gift for the bibliophile in your life, you can't go wrong with a subscription to Slightly Foxed, the real readers' quarterly. But Slightly Foxed also publish beautiful limited editions of carefully-selected literary gems that have been allowed to slip out of print. You can buy them ... Read More...
Guest reviewer Stephanie Thomson falls in love with an unusual tribute to London, and reckons it's a perfect Christmas gift... How do you describe love at first sight? It’s relatively straightforward to explain how and when it happens, but the ‘why’ is more elusive. I fell in love with London 26 years ... Read More...
