Researching human evolution and expressions, and revising ‘On the Origin of Species’.
Writing
Filter writing: Sidelines (blog) • Newsletters • Reviews
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 16, part 1 • 1868’
Researching human evolution and expressions.
Book Review: ‘One Midsummer’s Day’ by Mark Cocker
Swifts and the story of life on earth.
Book Review: ‘Writing Tools’ by Roy Peter Clark
An excellent collection of writing advice.
Book review: ‘Affinities’ by Brian Dillon
Exploring our relationships with images.
‘Lesser’ truth v artistic licentiousness
I don’t buy claims that paintings are more accurate than photographs, and novels more truthful than factual writing.
Book review: ‘Next to Nature’ by Ronald Blythe
A lifetime in the English countryside.
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 15 • 1867’
Correcting proofs and researching human evolution, sexual selection, and expressions.
Book review: ‘Unrecounted’ by W.G. Sebald & Jan Peter Tripp
Enigmatic Sebaldian poetry.
Cocker, the walk
A short walk with Mark Cocker to admire the natural grandeur of a Yorkshire wood.
Propellor: Flight // In Conversation
A cross-genre performance of music and words.
Philosophising
In which I attend a philosophical guided walk on a familiar patch.