Volume 55, Number 14 · September 25, 2008
Crashing the Party
By Jonathan Raban
The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
by Sarah Lyall
Norton, 289 pp., $24.95
In 1994, Sarah Lyall, who used to cover the literary beat forThe New York Times, moved to London, 'for love,' as she writes in her tartly provocative book about the British. She moved in with, and later married, Robert McCrum, then editorial director of Faber and Faber, and resumed her work for theTimesas a reporter for its London bureau. Her first story in her new role was published in December 1994—a piece about the 'high-concept Manhattan' DKNY store that had recently opened in Bond Street, 'like a nose-ringed teenager crashing a stately garden party,' which is much how she presents herself in her book.
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