Miranda Carter

Feb 18, 2024 | nytimes.com | Miranda Carter

When it comes to the monarch’s health, even a little bit of transparency is a revelation.

Apr 5, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Mary Renault |Miranda Carter

Literary​ fans, as Alan Bennett once remarked, can be off-putting for the rest of us. Certain writers’ books get ‘fenced off by enthusiasts, and the casual reader may feel the need of credentials to read them’. Between 1956 and 1981 Mary Renault published eight novels set in ancient Greece that made her enormously, wildly popular.