Writing

Book review: ‘How to Write a Lot’ by Paul J. Silvia

A practical guide to productive academic writing.
Book review: ‘Islands of Abandonment’ by Cal Flyn

Life in the post-human landscape.
Book review: ‘Ancestors’ by Prof. Alice Roberts

The prehistory of Britain in seven burials.
Book review: ‘A Place in the Country’ by W.G. Sebald

Essays on five writers and a painter who influenced Sebald’s work.
Newsletter No. 27: ‘Getting hitched’

The Pros and Cons of tying the knot • prehistoric invention • Ernest Shackleton • W.G. Sebald • swallows • comma splices • Amy Liptrot • Kapka Kassabova • and more…
Book review: ‘The Instant’ by Amy Liptrot

The follow-up to the best-selling ‘The Outrun’.
Book review: ‘Border’ by Kapka Kassabova

A journey to the edge of Europe.
Newsletter No. 26: ‘Slits for pupils’

Research triage • filing your nuggets • pupil shapes • Amy Liptrot • moths and bats • critical reading • early medieval history • Tim Dee • book reviews • and more…
Book review: ‘The Journal of a Disappointed Man’ by W.N.P. Barbellion

A deliberately self-inflated masterpiece.
Book review: ‘Albert & the Whale’ by Philip Hoare

An eclectic biography.
Book review: ‘Stasiland’ by Anna Funder

Stories from behind the Berlin Wall.
Book review: ‘The Diversity of Life’ by Edward O. Wilson

On our most valuable but least appreciated resource.