Holy crap… …I’ll leave it to you to do the maths. I’m off for a nap.
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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.
Book review: ‘The View in Winter’ by Ronald Blythe
Reflections on old age.
Book review: ‘Rare Singles’ by Benjamin Myers
The come-back of a one-and-a-half-hit soul wonder.
Book Review: ‘Every Man for Himself and God Against All’ by Werner Herzog
A memoir.
2024 in a nutshell
My fourteenth annual video slide-show of the year.
Book review: ‘London Review of Books: an incomplete history’
A profusely illustrated coffee-table tome.
Science FTW!
BBC: Spacecraft attempts closest-ever approach to Sun A Nasa spacecraft is attempting to make history with the closest-ever approach to the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe is plunging into our star's outer atmosphere, enduring brutal temperatures and extreme radiation. Genius move on behalf of Nasa to time this rendezvous to happen during mid-winter, when the… Continue reading Science FTW!