ASH Smyth

Homeless actors, breeding programmes, Humpty-Dumpty, and anxious readers. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth takes a leaf out of JMW Turner’s sketchbook.

ASH Smyth ‘remembers’ the Singing Laundryman.

In affectionate remembrance of Willard Price, 28.7.1887—14.10.1983

To his distress, ASH Smyth realises it’s been five years since his last cricket match (which, even more distressingly, he was allowed to captain).

From Aladdin to William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Full inventory of souvenirs and other purchases from my trip to Lima and environs, last December.

ASH Smyth reviews Chats with the Dead.

A Q&A with reigning Booker Prize champion Shehan Karunatilaka.

From the Archives: ASH Smyth looks out over mist-covered mountains, on Remembrance Sunday.

On the 957th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, ASH Smyth translates the Bayeux Tapestry.

A pal picks up the exceedingly prestigious Polar Medal.

My 5-year-old embarks on her 'Neruda phase’.

In celebration of the Meskel festival, ASH Smyth recalls his trip to Ethiopia’s Camelot, some 16 years ago.

From Brownhills to Winsford, plus many more.

Alpha and beta’s union is the set of all sets with exactly two elements.

Elephant tans, Emma Thompson, kumquats, and Milan Kundera. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth remembers Conor O Brien: apostrophe-hater, architect, mountaineer, boat-builder, writer, IRA gun-runner and officer of the Royal Navy.

From myna and shatranj to Chorpan and termagant.

Ankles, armpits, Uberlandia, and King Harald the Fine-Hair. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

Dub music, sourdough bread, Churchill, and Twitter. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

French soldiers, Ukrainian oligarchs, cannabis, and handbags. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

As the Speaker of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly jets off to be a speaker at the Speakers' conference in the Caribbean, ASH Smyth speaks to the Speaker about Speakership. And speaking.

The first moon-landing, LYCRA®, late-autumn wasps, and 1998. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

From Confessions of an Opium-Eater to The Complete Vegetable Grower.

Gollum, Whoopi Goldberg, penguins, and dentistry. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

Bavarian royals, Dracula, The Godfather, and Gridiron. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

Denzel Washington, fat cells, playful males, and Uruguayan politicians. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

Matthew McConaughey, Ted Hughes, pork pies, and Tristram Shandy. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

Hildegard von Bingen, Cara Delevingne, orgasms, and adultery. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.