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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… 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»
In Vientiane, the joy of textiles
February 1996 • 1,276 words • City of Words
My forebears on my father’s father’s side were silk merchants in England, in Macclesfield. During the industrial revolution they pioneered the mechanized, factory-based process that… more»
Balancing stones
18 August 1996 • 1,065 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»
Craftspeople of Hokkaido
November 1995 • 1,010 words • City of Words
A package arrives from Japan, from my old teacher. For the past decade and a half Willie Jones, who taught English literature to generations of… more»
A new acquisition for the national gallery of nature
19 October 1998 • 997 words • City of Words
I first went up Yr Wyddfa – Snowdon to the English – at the age… 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 • 1,176 words • City of Words
A neighbour of mine, the poet Alan Jenkins, was lying awake at two… more»
Read more, live longer
December 1996 • 869 words • City of Words
Many are the claims that have been made for the redemptive power of art and literature. Now here’s another: it helps us live longer. In… more»
