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The previous post about Tracey Emin marrying a rock asked, “I wonder how the rock feels about this. Will no one consider the rocks?” ...

The Art Newspaper reports that “last summer, under an olive tree in her garden in France and wearing her father’s white funeral shroud”...

For the last two weeks I have mostly been reading three novels by JRR Tolkein. You might have heard of them. Kind of a trilogy. As in the r...

They can’t all be like this, surely. Here is Nigel Farndale in the Spectator in a piece celebrating the magazine Country Life : The Q...

I have always admired my friend Murray Grimsdale ’s decoration of the Leys Institute and Grey Lynn library . The 1722 Klementinum library i...

For the last week I have mostly been reading three books by Stephen Fry. This was for work, you understand, not for pleasure. I am not a fa...

Possibly of the year, possibly of the decade. My proudest publishing moment was getting a letter printed in the Economist . That beat g...

From the edition of Saturday 13 February. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the Waikato Times :...

In the New York Times , Michiko Kakutani enthuses that: Garth Risk Hallberg’s “City on Fire” is a big, stunning first novel and an amaz...

From the February 2016 issue of the Literary Review , a full-page ad, page 7, facing the Contributors* list on page 6, which is a hi-visibi...