A protege of Karl Miller, he came to London to write for the London Review of Books and teach at UCL, but quickly gravitated to the TLS, where he worked for 14 years, six of them as deputy editor.

• 他曾经是卡尔米勒的门徒，他来到伦敦为伦敦书评写文章还在伦敦大学学院教书，但是很快就跳槽到泰晤士学报增刊，他在那工作了 14 年，他们六个人组成了代表编辑。