Julian Hoffman · CGP Grey · WG Sebald · Kathleen Jamie · Tim Dee · LRB · Alan Bennett · Caught by the River
Writing tagged: ‘W.G. Sebald’
Book review: ‘Heligoland’ by Jan Rüger
Britain, Germany, and the struggle for the North Sea.
Newsletter No. 11: Penguin eggs and yetis
Sir Thomas Browne · Saturn · penguin eggs · heroes of science · evolution of languages · nature books · dna barcoding · periodic table · Alice Roberts · geology
Newsletter No. 7: Hacked and hurt by time
John Tyndall · Galápagos cormorants · why English is so odd · Thoreau & Darwin · anthropological discoveries · mass-extinction hyperbole · WG Sebald · yellow rattle · Inigo Thomas · Mars exploration
Newsletter No. 6: A borrowed dog
woodpeckers · ambrotype portraits · W.G. Sebald · a deserted hamlet · mission creep · prime meridians · W.H. Hudson · podcasts · street photography · bonkers · tapirs · coiners
Newsletter No. 1: Kudos to youdos
Patti Smith · W.G. Sebald · Sexual Selection · Roman chicken · Robert Graves · Swallows & Amazons · Thames Estuary · James Brindley · Spoonbills
Book Review: ‘Threads’ by Julia Blackburn
The Delicate Life of John Craske.
Book review: ‘M Train’ by Patti Smith
A fascinating exercise in ‘writing about nothing’.
The seahorse and the pelican
How a passage from W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn might give a clue to some family history.
Venice: a model for car-free living?
It is entirely possible, it turns out, for a city to function without cars and vans and lorries. Who would have thought it? But is it practical?