Apple Music Mondays: Hairy Beasts Playlist
A playlist by Aug Stone, inspired by his new collection of stories, Sporting Moustaches.
A Tale of Two Cities: Rome and the Vatican
An extract from City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, its Popes, and its People by Jessica Wärnberg.
Power and Glory
How It Started… How It's Going. Alexander Larman writes his way into a trilogy about the Windsor family.
My Unconscious Biases
Sentences from my new book flagged for correction by the Inclusiveness Editor in Microsoft Word. (With suggested corrections.)
Peruvenirs
Full inventory of souvenirs and other purchases from my trip to Lima and environs, last December.
Blue Is The New Plaque
On the sanctity of Britain’s blue plaque scheme—and the delightful hoaxes it inspires.
All I Want for Christmas is... Books!
UPDATED DAILY from December 1 through to December 24, Emigre writers on the books they would be happy to receive for Christmas.
Remember Me
An extract from Remember Me by Charity Norman, winner of the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel.
The Double Afterlife of Maali Almeida
How Shehan Karunatilaka’s Chats with the Dead became Booker Prize winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
Arctic Sun
An extract from Jack Grimwood’s forthcoming thriller, Arctic Sun—out this month from Penguin Michael Joseph.
The Parable of Poyais, Part III
Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX and Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos are but modern-day reincarnations of Cazique MacGregor’s Poyais.
The Parable of Poyais, Part II
For credulous investors, Poyais was an exotic land of unparalleled opportunity.
The Parable of Poyais, Part I
Was the remarkable territory of Poyais—full of unbounded commercial and civic promise—all it was made up to be? Or was it simply too good to be true?