There’s a story that English artist David Hockney tells of the occasion on which his mother came to visit soon after he had relocated to Los Angeles in 1978. Hockney was born in Bradford, a West Yorkshire city that’s a little smaller than Cleveland, Ohio, and possessed of a similar degree of glamour and cultural [...]
Author Archives: John Davidson
Sexually I’m More of a Switzerland, edited by David Rose
March 26, 2010 – 12:57 pm
We are all in the gutter, and most of us have our minds firmly entrenched there. Certainly that’s the case with the lovelorn desperadoes who populate the personal ads of The London Review of Books. Like most of us, they’re looking for love but willing to settle for a little dirty action…yet what separates these [...]


