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Writing
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- Dec 2, 2022 Four in the Morning
- Nov 25, 2022 The Life With A Hole In It
- Nov 18, 2022 Sculptors and Speakers
- Nov 11, 2022 The Musicality
- Nov 4, 2022 Notes on Giving Criticism
- Oct 28, 2022 Language Distinctions
- Oct 21, 2022 A Private Notebook
- Oct 14, 2022 To The Smallest Particle
- Oct 7, 2022 Of Two Minds
- Sep 23, 2022 Stale, Fatigued, and Hushed
- Sep 9, 2022 Rebecca West: An Extraordinary Career
- Sep 2, 2022 Punctuation
- Aug 12, 2022 Lost Ideas
- Aug 5, 2022 Distant Memories
- Jul 29, 2022 Impermanence
- Jul 1, 2022 Past as Prologue
- Jun 24, 2022 A Difficult Time Writing
- Jun 3, 2022 Nude Writers
- May 27, 2022 The Anxiety of Influence
- May 20, 2022 Fateful
- May 13, 2022 There Won't Be Any Covid Novels
- May 6, 2022 The Guilt of the Innocent
- Apr 29, 2022 A Distortion of Fact
- Apr 15, 2022 The Sensation of Distance
- Apr 1, 2022 A Cold Wind
- Mar 18, 2022 All Those Fanatical Writers
- Mar 4, 2022 The Correspondents
- Feb 18, 2022 Ian McEwan: Against The Novel of Validation
- Jan 28, 2022 The Problem With Contemporary Writing
- Jan 7, 2022 The Real You
- Dec 10, 2021 A Change of Persona
- Nov 26, 2021 A Constraint of Choice
- Nov 19, 2021 Dealing with Criticism
- Nov 12, 2021 Mark Twain’s White Fence
- Nov 5, 2021 Unfinished Projects
- Oct 29, 2021 A Siren at Night
- Oct 22, 2021 The Last Novel
- Oct 15, 2021 The Weight of Sincerity
- Sep 25, 2021 A Country Girl
- Sep 10, 2021 Where is Afghanistan?
- Sep 3, 2021 The Closeness of the Words
- Aug 20, 2021 Literary Interruptions
- Aug 13, 2021 Losing a Language
- Jul 30, 2021 How to Trigger Creativity
- Jul 16, 2021 Specific Judgements
- Jul 9, 2021 A Transcript of Speech
- Jul 2, 2021 A Pattern of Dreams
- Jun 25, 2021 What Does A Writer Do?
- Jun 18, 2021 Orthodoxies
- Jun 11, 2021 Passage Analysis: A Dissection
- Jun 4, 2021 First Lines
- May 21, 2021 Imagine the Gaps
- May 14, 2021 Lacking Conviction
- May 7, 2021 A Writer’s Writer
- Apr 30, 2021 Camera Lens
- Apr 23, 2021 Fictional Addresses
- Apr 16, 2021 Writing Off the Page
- Apr 9, 2021 Private Conversations in Public
- Mar 5, 2021 Discovering a Memory
- Feb 26, 2021 Archaic Words
- Feb 19, 2021 Timescales
- Feb 12, 2021 Collapsible Distances
- Feb 5, 2021 Schoolyard Trajectories
- Jan 29, 2021 Unanswered Phones
- Jan 22, 2021 Mistranslations
- Jan 15, 2021 When They Won’t Speak
- Dec 22, 2020 A Slight Pang of Guilt
- Dec 18, 2020 Midnight Oil
- Dec 15, 2020 A Sense of Prudence
- Dec 11, 2020 Anchors
- Dec 4, 2020 Reckless Energy
- Dec 1, 2020 Too Sentimental
- Nov 27, 2020 Explanations for Yourself
- Nov 24, 2020 Fractured
- Nov 20, 2020 Regret and Remorse
- Nov 6, 2020 First Drafts
- Oct 27, 2020 Sentence Endings
- Oct 23, 2020 Outside Expertise
- Oct 20, 2020 True Fiction
- Oct 16, 2020 The Dinner Party
- Oct 13, 2020 Before War and Peace
- Oct 9, 2020 The Blank Page
- Oct 6, 2020 Nabokov as Rereader
- Oct 2, 2020 Beginnings and Endings
- Sep 22, 2020 Hiding Brushstrokes
- Sep 18, 2020 Make Retreat Impossible
- Sep 15, 2020 The Temptation of Cliché
- Sep 11, 2020 What’s Universal
- Sep 4, 2020 A Final Line
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Review
41
- Oct 14, 2022 To The Smallest Particle
- Sep 9, 2022 Rebecca West: An Extraordinary Career
- Aug 5, 2022 Distant Memories
- Jul 15, 2022 A Detective's Expertise
- Jul 1, 2022 Past as Prologue
- May 6, 2022 The Guilt of the Innocent
- Apr 29, 2022 A Distortion of Fact
- Apr 15, 2022 The Sensation of Distance
- Mar 25, 2022 A Low Dishonest Decade
- Feb 18, 2022 Ian McEwan: Against The Novel of Validation
- Jan 21, 2022 Rebecca West at Nuremberg: The World On Trial
- Nov 26, 2021 A Constraint of Choice
- Nov 19, 2021 Dealing with Criticism
- Nov 12, 2021 Mark Twain’s White Fence
- Nov 5, 2021 Unfinished Projects
- Oct 22, 2021 The Last Novel
- Oct 15, 2021 The Weight of Sincerity
- Sep 25, 2021 A Country Girl
- Aug 20, 2021 Literary Interruptions
- Jul 16, 2021 Specific Judgements
- Jul 9, 2021 A Transcript of Speech
- Jul 2, 2021 A Pattern of Dreams
- May 21, 2021 Imagine the Gaps
- May 14, 2021 Lacking Conviction
- May 7, 2021 A Writer’s Writer
- Apr 30, 2021 Camera Lens
- Apr 9, 2021 Private Conversations in Public
- Mar 5, 2021 Discovering a Memory
- Feb 26, 2021 Archaic Words
- Feb 19, 2021 Timescales
- Feb 5, 2021 Schoolyard Trajectories
- Dec 15, 2020 A Sense of Prudence
- Nov 27, 2020 Explanations for Yourself
- Nov 10, 2020 Winter of Discontent
- Nov 3, 2020 Individual Lies
- Oct 13, 2020 Before War and Peace
- Oct 9, 2020 The Blank Page
- Sep 22, 2020 Hiding Brushstrokes
- Sep 15, 2020 The Temptation of Cliché
- Sep 11, 2020 What’s Universal
- Sep 8, 2020 Tony Judt: The Memory Chalet
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Personal
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- Dec 9, 2022 The Power Struggle
- Dec 2, 2022 Four in the Morning
- Aug 19, 2022 In Case of Emergency Break Glass
- Jul 29, 2022 Impermanence
- Jul 15, 2022 A Detective's Expertise
- Jul 8, 2022 Golfinhos
- Apr 22, 2022 Perpetual Motion
- Apr 1, 2022 A Cold Wind
- Mar 11, 2022 Soundless
- Feb 11, 2022 The Result of Chance
- Jan 14, 2022 Dinner in Paris
- Jan 7, 2022 The Real You
- Dec 3, 2021 Hints of Dawn
- Oct 8, 2021 A Border Town
- Oct 1, 2021 The Passing Day
- Sep 17, 2021 Whisper
- Jul 2, 2021 A Pattern of Dreams
- May 28, 2021 Moonlight
- Apr 23, 2021 Fictional Addresses
- Apr 16, 2021 Writing Off the Page
- Apr 2, 2021 Transfer at 42nd
- Mar 26, 2021 Black Coffee
- Mar 19, 2021 Unspeakable Words
- Mar 12, 2021 One Possibility
- Mar 5, 2021 Discovering a Memory
- Jan 22, 2021 Mistranslations
- Jan 8, 2021 Yesterday’s Path
- Dec 22, 2020 A Slight Pang of Guilt
- Dec 15, 2020 A Sense of Prudence
- Dec 8, 2020 Some Thoughts About A Cardinal
- Nov 17, 2020 Out-Sickness
- Oct 30, 2020 The Moving Day
- Sep 25, 2020 Fear and Excitement
- Sep 18, 2020 Make Retreat Impossible
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Travel
11
- Jun 3, 2022 Nude Writers
- May 27, 2022 The Anxiety of Influence
- Oct 8, 2021 A Border Town
- Sep 17, 2021 Whisper
- Apr 30, 2021 Camera Lens
- Apr 23, 2021 Fictional Addresses
- Feb 12, 2021 Collapsible Distances
- Jan 22, 2021 Mistranslations
- Dec 22, 2020 A Slight Pang of Guilt
- Oct 6, 2020 Nabokov as Rereader
- Sep 25, 2020 Fear and Excitement
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Political
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- Mar 25, 2022 A Low Dishonest Decade
- Mar 4, 2022 The Correspondents
- Feb 25, 2022 More Than One Mistake
- Jan 21, 2022 Rebecca West at Nuremberg: The World On Trial
- Sep 10, 2021 Where is Afghanistan?
- Aug 27, 2021 The Bad Words
- Aug 6, 2021 Endless Grievances
- Jul 23, 2021 Shackles
- Nov 10, 2020 Winter of Discontent
- Nov 3, 2020 Individual Lies