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Things, in retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have said to my girlfriend

Monday, January 23, 2012

# 34 I’m just saying, I kind of need a better offer if I’m not going to carry on reading my book…

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Same, same

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

I buy books on Africa the same way my mother buys books on Ireland. (I don’t read them the same way.)

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True love is

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

reaching for your book when you know I want to read.

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Interview(ed)

Thursday, June 9, 2011

(for the British School in Colombo yearbook 2010/11) 1. So, what’s with the beard? After I graduated from the War Studies Faculty at KCL I rather fancied myself as a war correspondent, so I grew the beard. Then I just rather fancied myself. 2. We somehow get the impression that you are always very sarcastic […]

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Play us a dune!

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Sand: A Journey Through Science And The Imagination Michael Welland OUP, 320pp, £18.99 ISBN 978-0-19-956318-0 ‘Did you know that the Sand Mountain in Nevada emits a low C, while dunes in Chile sound an F, and those in Morocco a G#?’ Me neither. But that’s not the only thing you’ll learn about ‘the sand of […]

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Standing up to Scrutony

Monday, August 30, 2010

Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation Roger Scruton Continuum, 244pp, £18.99 ISBN 978-1-84706-506-3 That any book might ‘appeal both to specialists of philosophy and musicology and also to the ordinary music lover’ is perhaps a little optimistic. In the case of Understanding Music, however, it is – through either authorial arrogance or editorial blindness – wildly […]

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Devil May Care

Saturday, May 31, 2008

‘Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming’, reviewed. — For Stop Smiling

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Now I have to pretend to like graphic novels, too?

Monday, August 20, 2007

A review of Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean. — For Stop Smiling

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God is NOT Great

Monday, June 11, 2007

by Christopher Hitchens, reviewed. — For Stop Smiling

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Shadowland

Monday, April 2, 2007

A Q&A with Danish photojournalist Jan Grarup. — For Stop Smiling

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