Humorous memoir anthology.
Nonsense
Book review: ‘In the Dark Room’ by Brian Dillon
A memoir on memory, loss, heirlooms, places, photographs and other remnants.
Book review: ‘The Genetic Book of the Dead’ by Richard Dawkins
A Darwinian reverie.
Book review: ‘Is a River Alive?’ by Robert Macfarlane
Rivers as living entities: preposterous animism or a useful metaphor?
Book review: ‘Lifelines’ by Julian Hoffman
Searching for home in the mountains of Greece.
Book review: ‘Under a Metal Sky’ by Philip Marsden
A journey through minerals, greed and wonder.
Decrepitude
Holy crap… …I’ll leave it to you to do the maths. I’m off for a nap.
Book review: ‘The Essays: a selection’ by Michel de Montaigne
Classic personal essays from the man who established the genre.
Book review: ‘The Keelie Hawk’ by Kathleen Jamie
Poems in Scots.
Book review: ‘Camera Lucida’ by Roland Barthes
A grandiloquent analysis of our most accessible means of visual representation, the photograph.