Publication of Hilary Spurling’s admirable biography of Anthony Powell has provoked some odd and somewhat annoying responses from reviewers.[1] In England, The Times Literary Supplement headed its review, by A. N. Wilson, “Temporary King?,” the allusion being to the penultimate volume of Powell’s masterwork, A Dance to the Music of Time. By putting it in […]

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