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I'm a fool for words.

A world of experience

I’m not too sure why it’s taken me so long to get around to reading Hilary Mantel’s novels about the … More

Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

Smart roots

I’ve been following the work of James Beaudreau since he sent me a trio of beautifully packaged CD albums for … More

Bell Helium, James Beaudreau

History of tradition

I think I’ve burnt myself out on research now. There’s a lot more I could read to expand my thinking … More

Paul U. Unschuld, TCM, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine: Heritage and Adaptation

Specifically dense

Michael Woodman is a lover of words. On his most recent album in particular, his lyrics display an affinity for … More

Michael Woodman, Psithurism

An orrery of thought

Having finished reading Neal Stephenson’s epic historical trilogy The Baroque Cycle it’s quite hard, on reflection, to recall everything that’s … More

Neal Stephenson, The Baroque Cycle, The System Of The World

Judging hope

Martin Compston is best known for appearing in the entertainingly silly police fantasy Line of Duty, but his first acting … More

Ken Loach, Martin Compston, Sweet Sixteen

Keeping faith

Frank Herbert’s Dune has been a part of my life for many years—I started reading it for the first time … More

Denis Villeneuve, Dune, Frank Herbert

Putting medicine in its place

The historian Roy Porter was known during his lifetime as a ‘one-man book factory’, a prodigiously productive scholar who wrote … More

Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit To Mankind

The last man who knew everything (about bread)

Mostly if I want to find out about something (I call it ‘research’ when I’m feeling self-important), I look on … More

A Treatise On The Art Of Bread-Making, A. Edlin, Abraham Edlin

Between bodies and speakers

Sampling became one of the most significant new techniques in record production during the 1980s, and although its influence on … More

Brian Eno, David Byrne, My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Nurture writing

I read an interview with Suzanne Simard in New Scientist and it brought tears to my eyes. Her description of … More

Finding The Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard

Hardy perennials

Kim Stanley Robinson is known for not writing stories about soldiers, or other stereotypically heroic figures—which in our deeply fucked-up … More

Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140

Ordinary voices

Ordinary voices get so little time and exposure that we tend to forget what they sound like, despite the fact … More

Billie Bottle, Billie Bottle and the Multiple, Canterbury, The Other Place

Old school concision

Much of the development of videogames passed me by, despite my early and continuing interest, thanks to my long voluntary … More

Bioware, Mass Effect

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