PN Review has an essay about Berdychiv, central Ukraine, in its current issue. Joseph Conrad, Vasily Grossman and Pinhas Kahanovitch (‘Der Nister’) were all born there. I visited earlier this year, whilst writing a news piece about the present conflict. You can read it here
The Trouble with Simplifying the Sea
The Ecologist posted this, about a new Plymouth University report into what overfishing has done to the Channel.
Signor Butler and the Search for Desmond
The PN Review has a chapter from a novel I’ve written in their May-June edition. You can read it on their website here
Rotten Ambiguities at the Verne, Portland
The New Internationalist posted this article about the migrant detention centre which will open at the Verne on Portland this year. Three Monkeys Online posted a fuller version of the article with the title ‘From Aristotle to the Immigrant Detention Centres’, which you can read here
A Question of Real Protection
Resurgence posted a shorter and slightly updated version of the piece about Marine Conservation Zones which I did for The Ecologist in December. You can read it here.
One for the Dug-Out
I reviewed The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen for the February / March issue of the London Magazine
Taking the Conservation out of Marine Conservation Zones
This article, for The Ecologist website, is a response to the government’s recent designation of 27 Marine Conservation Zones
Saying No
Here is an article on the NI blog about the current hysteria in the UK around migration from Romania and Bulgaria
Please Do Feed the Pigeons
This article by Fahim Amir, originally Tausend Tauben, appeared on eurozine. You can read my translation here This is for Hazel.