I’ve an article in the summer issue of the Quarterly Review about the way Egyptian novelists have testified to the truth about life under Mubarak. It includes some discussion of Hani Abdul Mourid and Ahmed Alaidy, an interview with Sonallah Ibrahim and an account of Samia Mehrez’s ‘Translating the Revolution’ project, translating the banners, placards, […]
Category Archives: published articles
Butterfly-wings and Why
A review of Philip Howse’s Messages from Psyche, published in Resurgence.
The Passion of Paul
This article about Paul Goodman, published in the December 2010 issue of the New Internationalist, has also been posted on the website of Jonathan Lee’s forthcoming documentary about him, ‘Paul Goodman Changed My Life’. Read the article here
Letter from the Edge
This is a reportage about the recent expulsions of Roma from France. Published in eurozine. Ici en francais
How to be Reconciled with an Oil-Spill
This is the full text of a piece about the Prestige Disaster in the context of our oil-dependency and the build-up to war in Iraq. An edited version of this piece was printed in the March 2003 issue of the New Internationalist.
Londons of the Mind (Dissident Editions)
The second and longest of the three texts posted here includes the account of a pilgrimage to an underground mosque in the deserts of southern Kazakhstan, undertaken quite by chance on July 7th 2005, the day of the London Bombings. Either side of it is an article about EU enlargement and the piece I was actually in Kazakhstan to write. I […]
With Mrs Dalloway in Ukraine (Dissident Editions)
The ship’s cook on the night-train south was travelling home after four months at sea with an enormous maroon suitcase full of presents…
How Not to do an MA on George Orwell
Any English—speaker to whom Vaclav Havel has mattered owes a debt they’re probably unaware of to Paul Wilson. His work as the Czech writer’s translator began thirty years ago but I discover, over a cup of coffee off Russell Square, that he first came to London from his native Canada ten years before that, to […]
Lady Chatterley’s Defendant – London Magazine & Three Monkeys Online
An article written about Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin books, originally published in London Magazine, and subsequently in the online current affairs/arts magazine Three Monkeys Online For the full article, click here. Brief extract below: Even those closest to Allen Lane could never work out how many parts missionary he was to how many […]
Global Warming and the King’s Arms pub – The New Internationalist
In this essay for the New Internationalist, Horatio argues that Environmentalists may be missing out a vital part of the argument Brief excerpt: In the main bar of the King’s Arms a glass panel has been placed over one section of wall to display its internal structure. It is of ‘wattle and daub’ – nothing […]