A year in the life of the revered eighteenth-century country curate and naturalist Gilbert White
Nonsense
Book review: ‘Unclassified: a Walker Evans anthology’
Extracts from the celebrated photographer’s archive.
Book review: ‘The Running Hare’ by John Lewis-Stempel
The secret life of farmland.
Book review: ‘Bread of Angels’ by Patti Smith
A memoir.
Book review: ‘The Way of the Hermit’ by Ken Smith
40 years in the Scottish wilderness.
Book review: ‘Northanger Abbey’ by Jane Austen
More of the same from Jane.
2025 in a nutshell
My fifteenth annual slideshow of the year.
Book review: ‘I Remember’ by Joe Brainard
A short memoir of random recollections.
Book review: ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ by Rebecca Solnit
Don’t be put off trying to make a better world… Keep going!
Book review: ‘Men Explain Things to Me’ by Rebecca Solnit
Essays on feminism for everyone.