Essays on everything.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Book Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ by Joan Didion
A remarkable account of a year spent grieving.
Book Review: ‘The Savage Landscape’ by Cal Flyn
How we made the wilderness.
Book Review: ‘The White Album’ by Joan Didion
New Journalism from the late-1960s and early 1970s.
Book Review: ‘Dead and Alive’ by Zadie Smith
A fantastic collection of essays.
Book Review: ‘The Given World’ by Melissa Harrison
Things go out of kilter in the Welm Valley.
Book Review: ‘Vertigo’ by Harald Jähner
The rise and fall of Weimar Germany, 1918–1933.
Book Review: ‘Vivian Maier Developed’ by Ann Marks
The unearthed biography of a lauded photographic nanny.
Book Review: ‘Landscapes’ by John Berger
Excellent essay collection on art and culture.
Book Review: ‘Life Between the Tides’ by Adam Nicolson
In search of rockpools and other miracles.