Patrick Maxwell

A little while ago, I was approached by a producer on Press TV to appear on one of his employer's shows. Once…

I very much doubt that, in a couple of generations time, we will be recalling our current predicament with mu…

For someone who so despised the Westminster clique of which he was a conspicuous part, it's always rather com…

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012) remains for many who know him a distinctly twentieth-century figure, his…

In Vienna, a seemingly inconspicuous white building lines the street opposite the main university. If you go …

Cast your minds back, if you can, to the last time you were in a crowd. What strikes you? Is it the apparent …

Sunday evening on BBC 1 is dominated at present by Steve McQueen's Small Axe. This film series of five loosel…

On 4 August 1944, as the Nazi occupation of Italy was coming to an end, the German forces evacuating Florence…

As winter approaches, so does another series of The Crown, the lavishly produced series from Netflix. As usua…

This month's narrow defeat of the Trump presidency may already have been heralded as a triumph of liberal val…

The Golden Age of Russian literature in the nineteenth-century continues to entrance Western readers. To stud…

Beethoven's reputation as being the first true Romantic composer, or at least the bridge between Classicism a…

Wilfred Owen perhaps captured the national spirit best when he talked of the 'drawing-down of blinds', surely…

In recent decades, the idea of liberalism has wavered in both its importance and definition. To call someone …

WH Auden was a uniquely modern poet and one who speaks unmistakably to our modern times. He came of age at a …

It would be easy to believe that Johannes Brahms was living in a time that was bound to create the most brill…

This election was supposed to signal the revival of the Liberal Democrats. After their drubbing in 2015, Jo S…

Patrick Maxwell Reflections on The Brothers Karamazov In his masterpiece, Enemies of Promise (1938), Cyril Co…

The music of John Dowland, although composed around the same time as Tallis and Byrd, has a unique feature in…

The piano works of Frédéric Chopin stand in the middle of the two sections of the 'Bible' for the instrument:…

Campaigning for the 2019 General Election is underway so Patrick Maxwell is here to provide you with analysis…

Patrick Maxwell Tony Harrison: Poetry & Class The use of poetry as a form of class war has arguably never had…

A Frank O'Hara Notebook, Bill Berkson, No Place Press, 2019, 278 pp, £35.00 (hardcover) Frank O'Hara's poetry…