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Tag Archives: “The Strand: A Biography” Geoff Browell Eileen Chanin (LRB review by Ysenda Maxtone Graham)

STROLLING THE STRAND—MIND THE PRIMEVAL HIPPOPOTAMI PART 2

YESTERDAY, WE BEGAN GLEANING TIDBITS from Ysenda Maxtone Graham’s LRB review of Geoff Browell and Eileen Chanin’s The Strand: A Biography. Today in Part 2, we continue the fun.  Nationalizing … Continue reading

January 6, 2026 · Leave a comment

STROLLING THE STRAND—MIND THE PRIMEVAL  HIPPOPOTAMI PART 1

IN READING “BUSIEST THOROUGHFARE OF THE METROPOLIS OF THE WORLD,” by Ysenda Maxtone Graham in London Review of Books, December 4, 2025, I am reminded of my sole phrase of … Continue reading

January 5, 2026 · Leave a comment