'This is a book about the magazines I have edited. I have written
it in order to describe what they were like, and what literary
journalism was like, and to do honour to the writers I worked
with.' So begins Karl Miller's understated, droll and lucid
retrospect of English post-war literary culture. Dark Horses is the
vade mecum and memoir of an eminent literary critic and teacher,
who also edited several of the most influential literary magazines
of his time, and who founded the most influential literary journal
of our time, the London Review of Books. It is the testament of a
watchful and undeceived intelligence, of wide and sometimes
surprising sympathies, as observant about football as about
politics and letters. In its feeling for outsiders as well as its
understanding of insiders, Dark Horses fulfills the promises of its
title. 'Frank Kermode has written of "the good writing that cannot
help eliminating truth from autobiography." Karl Miller comes
marvellously close to bringing the two together.' Financial Times
'Miller's prose is elegant, spare and unforced. He has the true art
of the memoirist.' Jonathan Bate
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