Richard Carter

‘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.
Keeping sources and ideas separate

In which I am astonished by a reminder of how I used to work.
Bifurcation of books

In which I add some much-needed order to my collection of books.
Lit & Phil

A visit to a wonderful library.
Officially buzzing

After a frustrating six months, progress on my book is emerging from the doldrums!
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 14 • 1866’

Getting back to work after prolonged illness.