Geoffrey Sampson

Jun 18, 2024 | newcriterion.com | James Panero |Geoffrey Sampson |Keith Windschuttle |Anthony Daniels

Nonfiction:Jeremy Clarke: Spectator Low Life, The Final Years, by Jeremy Clarke (Quartet): The late Jeremy Clarke (1957–2023) might have been faced with an impossible task. Writing the “Low Life” column in The Spectator following the death of the inimitably drunken Jeffrey Bernard (famous for occasionally missing a weekly column, resulting in a byline reading “Jeffrey Bernard is unwell”), Clarke could hardly be expected to manage the louche languors of his predecessor.