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Sweet dreams in the round reading room
December 1996 • 1,140 words • City of Words
If you’re an intellectual, a bibliomane, an antiquarian, a scholar, an amateur lexicographer,… more»
The typographical traveller
July 1996 • 875 words • City of Words
John Hatt, the publisher of Eland Books, a traditionalist and fly-fishing fanatic, makes an unlikely cybernaut. Here is a man who never picks up the… more»
Writers as prisoners
16 March 1998 • 1,093 words • City of Words
‘Prison,’ writes the diarist of the Times Literary Supplement, ‘is a good place for a writer.’ The TLS diarist, identified only by the initials JC,… more»
From the desert to the casbah
24 June 1990 • 4,427 words • Reportage & Criticism
In Tangier, in the casbah, the narrow streets are blocked with sandbags. Bullet holes are etched in pristine white walls: machine-guns stutter in back alleys.… more»
Orang-utans of Hollywood
March 1997 • 962 words • City of Words
An infant orang-utan is a beguiling creature. With its russet-coloured body hair, wrinkled countenance and quizzical expression, it is more appealing than a human baby.… more»
Translating Caetano
2001 • 4,425 words • Reportage & Criticism
In the late 1980s I was living in Salvador da Bahia, the old capital of Brazil, studying Portuguese. I didn’t spend much time in class. There… more»
A short walk in Kurdistan
31 May 1991 • 3,034 words • Reportage & Criticism
Crippled men are a frequent sight in border villages in south-eastern Turkey, grizzled and limping, on crutches, or with one sleeve pinned across their chests – former smugglers with gunshot … more»
Dictation from the dead
22 April 1988 • 4,451 words • Reportage & Criticism
In São Paulo, on the first smog-free morning of spring, I was lingering by the news kiosks in the Praça da Republica – enigmatic cuboids of… more»
