A journey through minerals, greed and wonder.
Nonsense
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.
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.