Rod Menghham lectures in English at the University of Cambridge where he is also a fellow of Jesus College. He has published several books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing, most recently Introduction to Contemporary Fiction (Polity, 1999).
Nonfiction
Summer 2011
The Folding Telescope and Many Other Virtues of Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz was born and was killed in the Polish town of Drohobycz, now in the Ukraine. The road there from Lviv (which Schulz knew as Lwów) is today lined […]
Book Reviews
Fall 2010
Come Back: The Work and Life of Storm Jameson
Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life by Jennifer Birkett. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 441 pages. $49.95, hardcover. The fiction of Storm Jameson includes some of the most haunting writing of […]
Nonfiction
Summer 2003
Soluble Culture
Flag Fen, on the outskirts of an industrial estate near Peterborough, F is a triumph of the invisible. One of the most important Bronze Age sites in Britain, it has […]
Poetry
Winter 2001
Friends on the Rocks of the Shore of the Night
A band of Tocharians, wearing out their exile, conduct the excavation of their own basements, searching for clues in the hidden minerals, chemical stowaways. Then they come alight with the […]