A review of Philip Howse’s ‘Vicar Of the Amazon’, in the Aug. – Sept. 2023 issue of the London Magazine. A longer version was published under the same title in the Trinity College Annual Report in December 2023.
Category Archives: published articles
Reviewing Ho! Ho! Ho!
Bridport’s salmon poaching gangs from the 1970s and 1980s meet Millais’ ‘The Boyhood of Raleigh’. The result is published in the 50th anniversary issue of the PN Review.
Digital Utopianism or Pixelated Madness?
In discussion with Jonathan Simons, founding editor of The Analog Sea Journal, at 8pm on April 14th 2023, at the Unitarian Chapel in Bridport. You can read about it here.
On Findingness
‘On Findingness’ is about my home town and Bertrand Russell and that’s not all. It’s in the Jan. – Feb. 2023 issue of the PN Review.
A Deed of Quixote
My portrait of J.M. Cohen, translator from French and Spanish, crucial link between the London publishing world and Latin American literature in the 1950s and 1960s, is in the current issue of PN Review (Nov.-Dec. 2019).
It Never Was in France or Spain
The current issue (Sept – Oct 2018) of the PN Review includes an essay of mine about the poet Sean Rafferty.
An old pair of Russian binoculars
The August-September 2018 issue of the London Magazine has an essay of mine about growing up with the Cold War, dedicated to the memory of Stephen Batty.
Unseasonably Speaking
The application to commemorate Stefan Zweig’s time in London with a plaque was refused by English Heritage in 2012. In a piece for PN Review, I argue here that it is time to re-visit this question.
Europe’s Rotten Wood
Investigations into the activities of a large Austrian timber company, Holzindustrie Schweighofer, have resulted in the company’s FSC license being withdrawn. The Spar supermarket chain has also announced that it will no longer buy wood pellets or briquettes sourced from the company. You can find out why by reading this, published in Resurgence Magazine. Also […]
One Touch of Nature: Shakespeare & Ecology
My review of Randall Martin’s excellent Shakespeare & Ecology was published in the May-June 2016 issue of Resurgence Magazine. You can read the article here. Brief summary: ‘I can think of no better way to celebrate the 400th anniversary than to read this book.’ This article appears in French, as ‘Shakespeare et la Nature’, in […]