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An everyday story of pot-boiling folk
February 1996 • 1,072 words • City of Words
Long ago, when Joan Collins was a mute, inglorious vedette and the sex-and-shopping… more»
Far away is close at hand in images of elsewhere
16 June 1997 • 2,359 words • City of Words
British Airways recently announced that it had commissioned a new look for its… more»
Writers as prisoners
16 March 1998 • 1,204 words • City of Words
Prison, suggests the diarist of the Times Literary Supplement, “is a good place for a writer.” The TLS diarist, identified only by the initials JC,… more»
The long day of the short paragraph
21 July 1995 • 1,335 words • City of Words
Every book lover is a bibliokleptomane. The Maasai of East Africa, it has been said, consider that all cattle in the world belong to them.… more»
The pixel and the book
6 April 1998 • 1,270 words • City of Words
I was in the bookshop down the road (how much longer will we still have one?) talking to Simon Burt, a critically well-received but under-read… more»
The writers, the punters
and the infinity pool
1995 • 571 words • City of Words
It promises to be an intense but rewarding summer at the School of… 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 aluminium… more»
