In the lists: those desert island titles
By Paul Skinner Of her ‘desert island books’, the novelist Penelope Lively wrote: ‘there are three titles that I would pick, because, for me, they are perhaps the ones that have most…
Crazy Kids and their Parisian Journal
We enjoyed this article by Nick Ripatrazone in the Literary Hub about the short-lived but influential magazine the transatlantic review, set up by Ford in Paris in 1924, and the increasingly influential…
Deciphering Ford’s Handwriting with AI
By Seamus O’Malley The novelist of epistemological crisis would have had something to say about Artificial Intelligence. In The Good Soldier Dowell asks: “If for nine years I have possessed a goodly…
A Day on the Town with Elizabeth von Arnim
The Elizabeth von Arnim Society is hosting a conference this Friday 11 July, 2025 – both in person in New York City, and streaming online. The day will include the launch of…
Ford’s Spurious Sister
By Andrew Gustar Ford Madox Ford has a somewhat complicated family tree, as illustrated by the trees of his paternal and maternal sides in Max Saunders’ Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life,…
Ford, Conrad, Greenland and Trump
We were intrigued to read this article by Aaron Rosenberg in Tribune, drawing parallels between Ford and Conrad’s 1901 science fiction novel The Inheritors, and the recent controversy over Donald Trump’s statements…
A barney with Barnes
By Paul Skinner In the London Review of Books (8 May 2025), Julian Barnes’ notice of Blake Gopnik’s book, The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream (Ecco) includes the observation that ‘you…
Stella Bowen: Dangerously Modern
Stella Bowen has been featured in this article in Australia’s In Daily, as one of 50 artists celebrated in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s new exhibition Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in…
Finding Helena
by Sara Haslam Ever wondered what Ford scholars get up to in their spare time? Many of them have written on Ford’s contemporaries, and this 3rd May, we republish a post by Sara…
The Chronicler of Unhappiness
“With this new book, our leading Ford Madox Ford scholar distills a lifetime of close reading and study into two hundred pages.” Congratulations to Max Saunders for this positive review by Michael…
