Writing

Book Review: ‘Mrs Dalloway’ by Virginia Woolf

A kaleidoscopic, occasionally bewildering, modernist masterpiece.
Distracted by a heron

My latest lesson in stoical photography.
Book review: ‘Of Walking in Ice’ by Werner Herzog

File under ‘Sebaldian’.
Book Review: ‘Changing My Mind’ by Zadie Smith

Occasional essays.
Book Review: ‘The Peace of Wild Things’ by Wendell Berry

Highly enjoyable poetry collection.
Lichen timelapse

A project to take photographs of the same lichen over many years.
Book Review: ‘The Book of Alchemy’ by Suleika Jaouad

A creative practice for an inspired life.
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.