Category

Essays

Long-form rants, explorations, flights of fancy.

A photograph of a tram in Nagasaki, Japan.

‘Nagasaki Crows’ redux

(It’s a Long, Long Way) From Clare to Here

A photograph of green pine trees lining a path next to a house.

Human Acts: Han Kang receives the Nobel Prize in Literature

When career and life collide: Cycling safety in Fryslân

Writing the unspeakable: On parenting and poetry

Writing about ‘The Americans’ with Alicia Sometimes

Dag Hammarskjöld’s 1961 Oxford lecture: Three untold stories