Times Literary Supplement
The Newseum
It is a bit unnerving (to say the least) when you’...
Tuning In
This week, we start with Donna Summer and finish w...
Thinking differently
In recent years the concept of “neurodiversity” ha...
So hard to be oneself
You can never know how someone else experiences th...
Doing the devil’s work
Azrael’s name in Hebrew translates as “help from G...
Body politic
Diogenes the Cynic (c.412-323 BC) provides not onl...
No place like home
Peter Godwin was six when he was abruptly sent to ...
Careless
Teresa Thornhill’s father – a difficult presence i...
From Falstaff’s pocket
For such small fish, anchovies pack a big punch. T...
Running out of futures
In his book Retromania (2011), Simon Reynolds cont...
That year’s kisses
Billie Holiday would die at the age of just forty-...
Cartographical imperatives
If you were taught the “correct” way to draw a map...
Unconfined creativity
A few weeks ago I was in Lausanne for a conference...
Mappa fungi
Fungi can be found on all continents, thriving eve...
Trinkets of the Thames
It is said that after tobacco arrived from the New...
Sacred passions
A Martian whose knowledge of life on Earth came on...
Crossword 1545
A PDF of crossword is available here The post Cros...
A country on the slide
Perhaps no phrase more neatly sums up the past fif...
Share nicely?
Danny Dorling’s new book is a stark analysis of po...
Coming out of her shell
I Heard Her Call My Name, Lucy Sante’s second work...