Ian Sansom

A 50-year obsession with the white stuff: Milk, by Peter Blegvad, reviewed

A lifetime obsession with milk has resulted in 350 numbered, lightly edited and loosely connected remarks about milk, its colour, its smell and much else. Weird or what?

Glowing, elemental, otherworldly and full of natural goodness: Blegvad’s book is a ‘portrait of the self, mediated through milk’. [Alamy] 
issue 23 September 2023
  • Comments

  • Milk: Through a Glass Darkly

    Peter Blegvad

    Uniform Books, pp. 96, £10

GIF Image

Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it

TRY 3 MONTHS FOR $5
Our magazine articles are for subscribers only. Start your 3-month trial today for just $5 and subscribe to more than one view

Read next

Trending

Stephen Daisley

Keir Starmer is a shallow man

Keir Starmer thinks ‘this is the time now to lower the temperature’ on the gender debate. To ‘move forward’. To ‘conduct this debate with the care and compassion that it deserves’. That is what he said at Prime Minister’s Questions. What a shallow, hollow man he is. Now is the time to lower the temperature?

More on alfred hitchcock

Also by Ian Sansom

Latest

Comments

Join the debate for just £1 a month

Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for £3.

Already a subscriber? Log in