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Inside the miracle room
30 November 2001 • 3,043 words • Reportage & Criticism
In the pilgrimage centres of the Brazilian Northeast—remote rural shrines that attract hundreds of thousands of visitors in the high season—are found what are locally… more»
Bringing it all back home
March 1989 • 1,008 words • Reportage & Criticism
Serpentine Gallery catalogue, 1989 Some travellers never return. They become villagers instead. This happened to a man I know, the symbolist of Itaparica. An American landscape… more»
An atheist who saw miracles
31 July 1998 • 6,547 words • Reportage & Criticism
In 1997 I received an irresistible summons from Rio de Janeiro. A Rio samba school, União da Ilha do Governador, one of fourteen in the… more»
The joy of textiles
February 1996 • 1,281 words • City of Words
My forebears on my father’s father’s side were silk merchants in Macclesfield, in England. During the industrial revolution they pioneered the mechanized, factory-based process that… more»
Balancing stones
18 August 1996 • 1,083 words • City of Words
In “Mending Wall”, his poem about the limits of neighbourliness, Robert Frost writes Something there is that doesn’t love a wall That sends the frozen-ground-swell… more»
Craftsmen of Hokkaido
November 1995 • 1,140 words • City of Words
A package arrives from my old teacher, from Japan. “Printed matter,” it says on the outside, “no commercial value”. But the contents are precious. For… more»
A new acquisition for the national gallery of nature
19 October 1998 • 983 words • City of Words
I first went up Yr Wyddfa—Snowdon to the English—at the age of two,… more»
A hawkmoth by moonlight
6 June 1996 • 1,248 words • City of Words
Broadcasting policy in Britain is under the direction of people with no vision: the cut in funding for BBC World Service radio, the country’s one… more»
A light goes on and
off in Notting Hill
October 1996 • 1,172 words • City of Words
My neighbour, the poet Alan Jenkins, who lives just a few streets away,… more»
Read more, live longer
December 1996 • 864 words • City of Words
Many are the claims that have been made for the redemptive power of art. Now here’s another: it makes us live longer. In the Christmas… more»
