Writing

Book review: ‘I Remember’ by Joe Brainard

A short memoir of random recollections.
Book review: ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ by Rebecca Solnit

Don’t be put off trying to make a better world… Keep going!
Book review: ‘Men Explain Things to Me’ by Rebecca Solnit

Essays on feminism for everyone.
Charles Darwin reviews Jane Austen

A short piece to mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth.
Book review: ‘Under the Sun: the letters of Bruce Chatwin’

The correspondence of an unusual and gifted writer.
Book review: ‘Catch-22’ by Joseph Heller

There was only one catch…
Book review: ‘The Gifts of Reading’ by Robert Macfarlane

The joy of giving books as presents.
Book review: ‘Jesus Christ Kinski’ by Benjamin Myers

A novel about a film about a performance about Jesus.
Book review: ‘Domination’ by Alice Roberts

How the Christian Church rose to prominence in the wake of the Roman Empire.
Rich Text newsletter No. 37: ‘These people knew mammoths!’

Ice age art • Robert Macfarlane • Kathleen Jamie • medieval poems • lichen • Barbarian Conspiracy • the Shipping Forecast • escaping the entropy • and more…
Book review: ‘The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem’ by Jeremy Noel-Tod

An anthology of poems without line breaks.
Book review: ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ by Simon Armitage

An excellent alliterative translation of a medieval masterpiece.