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‘Photography is art’s orphan’: Michael Collins on Blind Corners

May 13, 2025

Blind Corners: Essays on Photography is the debut essay collection by celebrated photographer Michael Collins,…

Meghan Daum on the Power of Personal Essays

April 14, 2025

We recently sat down for an interview with Meghan Daum, author of The Catastrophe Hour, to talk about inspiration and the writing process.

Julian Barnes in The Observer

March 16, 2025

On the 16th of March (two days before official publication), we are delighted to share…

Inspiring literary quotes for International Women’s Day

March 5, 2025

On the 8th March we celebrate International Women’s Day, and to mark the occasion, we’ve…

The historical context of Outrage by Ian Nairn

February 11, 2025

Travis Elborough provides some historical background to Ian Nairn’s timeless classic, Outrage.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s music, and the master of the double-entendre

September 25, 2024

The 25th of September marks the birthday of Dmitri Shostakovich, whose life and times, according to Stephen Johnson, is ‘one of the most dramatic, stirring, at times even darkly comical in the history of classical music’.

William McCrum, Robert McCrum and the story of the penalty kick

September 18, 2024

The story of the penalty kick is one of chance, risk and obsession that took Robert McCrum many years to uncover. Read the story of how the book came into being.

Our best Ian Nairn quotes

August 29, 2024

To commemorate Ian Nairn, enjoy some of the best quotes from our most passionate, outraged architectural critic.

Victorian gossip: The rivalry between Dickens and W.M. Thackeray

July 18, 2024

Read about the literary rivalry between the two supreme male novelists of the Victorian era: W.M. Thackerary and Charles Dickens.