(Winter) Olympic Ambition
As this year’s Winter Olympics draws to a close, Becky Clark offers some tips to boost future engagement.
Less of that!
Emigre writers tell us about the gifts they wish would just stop giving. *UPDATED SPORADICALLY FROM DECEMBER 1 THROUGH TO DECEMBER 24*
Insanetiago
“The riot police started firing tear gas from their guns.” Dominic Hilton remembers an ill-fated city break he took to Santiago, a few weeks before the start of the global pandemic.
The Counterfeiting of Robert Gray
An extract from Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration, out this week in paperback.
News At A Glance #40
Homeless actors, breeding programmes, Humpty-Dumpty, and anxious readers. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.
Stella Rimington BA DG DCB PhD (but not KGB) RIP
Philip Ardagh on a memorable evening spent in the company of the late spy chief.
Time Taken to Walk a Thousand Miles to the Tempo of 500 Miles
All measurements given in miles (mi) for public convenience.
Daggers at the Font
An outtake from Thomia: The Entangled Histories of Lanka & Her Greatest Public School, out today.
Total Whiteout
ASH Smyth talks to RS Burnett about his Antarctic thriller debut, and the long road to publication.
On Will-fullness
Why are we so desperate to believe that William Shakespeare wasn’t William Shakespeare?
Where Was I?
Martin Rowson on the original unfilmable (and indeed unreadable) ‘anti-novel’, Tristram Shandy.
Knopper gall, ZX Spectrum
‘The gall sprawls like a thought bubble coming out of the acorn head.’ A new poem by Nathan Koblintz.
