Paul Levy

Paul Levy is the editor of The Letters of Lytton Strachey. He wrote about Ritz and Escoffier in Out to Lunch.   (July 2018)

The V&A Makes a Meal of It

The V&A Makes a Meal of It

To be sure, the Comté cheese made using microbes taken from chef Heston Blumenthal’s pubic hair is as playful as it is subversive, but the theme of this scatter-shot show remains elusive: Is it about food really, or is it a show of food-related conceptual art?

July 28, 2019

Ritzy Business

Ritzy Business

Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class

by Luke Barr

July 19, 2018 issue

The Painter and the Novelist

The Painter and the Novelist

On the Bloomsbury painter Vanessa Bell and her younger sister, Virginia Woolf

Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)

an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, February 8–June 4, 2017

Sussex Modernism: Retreat and Rebellion

an exhibition at Two Temple Place, London, January 28–April 23, 2017

Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision

Catalog of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, by Frances Spalding

Vanessa and Her Sister: A Novel

by Priya Parmar

Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read

by Barbara Lounsberry

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May 11, 2017 issue

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