Writing
Filter writing: Sidelines (blog) • Newsletters • Reviews
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Book review: ‘Camera Lucida’ by Roland Barthes
A grandiloquent analysis of our most accessible means of visual representation, the photograph.
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Book review: ‘The View in Winter’ by Ronald Blythe
Reflections on old age.
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Book review: ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf, volume 5’
A final volume of diaries, covering a momentous time in British and European history.
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End of Draft One-and-a-half
I have finally—FINALLY—completed the first draft of my Darwin book!
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Book review: ‘Rare Singles’ by Benjamin Myers
The come-back of a one-and-a-half-hit soul wonder.
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Book review: ‘Blythe Spirit’ by Ian Collins
The remarkable life of Ronald Blythe.
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Book review: ‘Stoicism: a very short introduction’ by Brad Inwood
A useful guide to an ancient philosophy.
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Book review: ‘Emma’ by Jane Austen
More unromantic romantic intrigue.
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2024: a year in photos
My fourteenth annual video slideshow.
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Book review: ‘Wonder’ by Ana Sampson (ed.)
The Natural History Museum poetry book.
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Book review: ‘London Review of Books: an incomplete history’
A profusely illustrated coffee-table tome.
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The end of my ‘Daily Darwin’ binge-read
A 23-month daily reading of Charles Darwin’s correspondence.