Writing

Book Review: ‘Marcus Aurelius Meditations: the annotated edition’

The private philosophical notebooks of a Second-Century Roman Emperor.
Book Review: ‘Romanticism: a very short introduction’ by Michael Ferber

A useful guide to what make the Romantics tick.
Science calls it, yet again

Yet another correctly forecast solar eclipse.
Book Review: ‘Further Requirements’ by Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin interviews, broadcasts, statements and book reviews, 1952–1985.
Book Review: ‘The Age of Wonder:’ by Richard Holmes

How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science.
Fountain pen mod

Plastic fountain pen versus power-tool: what could possibly go wrong?
Book Review: ‘Inventing the Enemy’ by Umberto Eco

Essays on everything.
Book Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ by Joan Didion

A remarkable account of a year spent grieving.
Book Review: ‘The Savage Landscape’ by Cal Flyn

How we made the wilderness.
Streak!

I’m damned if I’m going to have some stupid app make me fret about missing a day and going all the way back to zero!
Heavenly conjunction

Images of the moon, past and present.
Book Review: ‘The White Album’ by Joan Didion

New Journalism from the late-1960s and early 1970s.