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Literary conventions
Photographers are not unsuccessful painters, and factual writers are not wannabe novelists.
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Book review: ‘The Running Hare’ by John Lewis-Stempel
The secret life of farmland.
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Book review: ‘The Way of the Hermit’ by Ken Smith
40 years in the Scottish wilderness.
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The real Wuthering Heights
In which I rant about the West Yorkshire Pennines’ identity crisis.
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Feel-good February
This disconcertingly mild winter, I’m going to enjoy February or die in the attempt.
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Book review: ‘Northanger Abbey’ by Jane Austen
More of the same from Jane.
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2025: a year in photos
My fifteenth annual video slideshow.
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Book review: ‘I Remember’ by Joe Brainard
A short memoir of random recollections.
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Book review: ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ by Rebecca Solnit
Don’t be put off trying to make a better world… Keep going!
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Book review: ‘Men Explain Things to Me’ by Rebecca Solnit
Essays on feminism for everyone.
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Charles Darwin reviews Jane Austen
A short piece to mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth.