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Failure to Turn
The majordomo of literary non-fiction meditates upon his mortality, his ear hair, and his complicated feelings toward the oeuvre of Luca Guadagnino.
26 January 2024
Elder States, Man
To spend your life online is to live at one remove from reality – stand back too far, and you might find the years speeding by before your eyes.
19 January 2024
The Chic Young Divorcée
Making a swift 180 down the aisle.
19 December 2023
Lost in the Woods
Guy Shrubsole’s schemes have the potential to unleash havoc in the British countryside.
18 April 2023
The View from Mount Olympus
2012’s Summer Olympics were a harbinger of the dreadful decade to come.
23 May 2021
At the Altar of Capital
How the Conservative Party lost their religion to the pull of the market.
12 January 2021
The State of Nature
A classic treatise against men writing about the natural world.
7 December 2020
FBPE Fantasia
Unpicking the last four years of Remaniac delusions.
23 November 2020Most Popular
The Chic Young Divorcée
Making a swift 180 down the aisle.
19 December 2023The State of Nature
A classic treatise against men writing about the natural world.
7 December 2020
Conversations with Friends about Sally Rooney
An epistolary inquiry into the zeitgeist, the novels, the publishers and me.
2 March 2020Failure to Turn
The majordomo of literary non-fiction meditates upon his mortality, his ear hair, and his complicated feelings toward the oeuvre of Luca Guadagnino.
26 January 2024