Back in the summer of 1985 I spent several weeks in London, and like virtually everyone else there, used the tube to speedily traverse the city’s sprawling immensity. But I never liked it. For ...

Following up on his recent nonfiction Shakespeare: The Biography, Ackroyd brings readers forward to London at the turn of the 19th century, and to denizens who are preoccupied with the Shakespearean ...

2013-06-30T18:27:59-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/fc7/20130630183047002_hd.jpgPeter Slen interviewed Peter Ackroyd in London about English writers and the ...

"London: The Biography" (Doubleday, 773 pages, $45) by Peter Ackroyd. "London has always been an ugly city. It is part of its identity," writes Peter Ackroyd, lover of London and author of its ...

What's in a name? -- A red and savage tongue -- A military lay -- The friend -- No cunt -- Bring on the dancing boys -- Soft and slippery -- The rubsters -- Suck thy master -- Arsey-versy -- ...