We are all Walter Benjamin Now
09th, Oct 2018Photo: the image of Walter Benjamin at the Whitney Gallery, New York City, August 2018.
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Cities of the mind
04th, Jun 2017
‘Novels about architecture don’t sell.’ A fellow writer told me this years ago, at a literary festival in Canada. He’d written a novel about an architect which, as far as I could tell, was doing well.
Adapting to the film world
19th, Mar 2017Nicholas Cage delivers his elevator pitch to Meryl Streep in Adaptation (2002).
Shoebill safari
03rd, Feb 2017Uganda is home to spectacular birds. The country’s location in central eastern Africa accounts in part for its extraordinary diversity, with over 1,000 species recorded in a landmass the size of the UK.
Writing about Place: Estuary and Four Fields
09th, Dec 2016In literature place has become a category of definition and an aesthetic subject in its own right.