Exploring our relationships with images.
Reviews: Essays
Reviews of books of essays and opinion pieces.
Book review: ‘Next to Nature’ by Ronald Blythe
A lifetime in the English countryside.
Book review: ‘The Creative Act’ by Rick Rubin
A way of being.
Book review: ‘Allegorizings‘ by Jan Morris
Eclectic crepuscular essays.
Book review: ‘Orwell’s Roses‘ by Rebecca Solnit
Pleasure, truth, and roses.
Book review: ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem‘ by Joan Didion
Counter-cultural journalism from the Swinging Sixties.
Book review: ‘Teaching a Stone to Talk’ by Annie Dillard
An eclectic mix of science, nature and memoir.
Book review: ‘Pedro and Ricky Come Again’ by Jonathan Meades
Selected Writing 1988-2020.
Book review: ‘Deep Work’ by Cal Newport
Rules for focused success in a distracted world.
Book review: ‘Women on Nature’ by Katherine Norbury (ed.)
100+ voices on place, landscape and the natural world.
Book review: ‘Illuminations’ by Walter Benjamin
An eclectic collection of high-brow essays.
Book review: ‘Suppose a Sentence’ by Brian Dillon
Essays on single sentences.