Josa Keyes 3/8/24 Josa Keyes 3/8/24

Do Not Go Dowdy

A poem for International Women’s Day by Josa Keyes.

Matt Gallagher 2/20/24 Matt Gallagher 2/20/24

Daybreak

An extract from Daybreak, the brand new novel by Matt Gallagher.

Peter Foggitt 2/17/24 Peter Foggitt 2/17/24

A Bold New Future for the Arts in the UK

“Our highly-trained cormorant chorus represents the very best of Brexit Britain.”

Calo Baba 2/14/24 Calo Baba 2/14/24

My Unconscious Biases

Sentences from my new book flagged for correction by the Inclusiveness Editor in Microsoft Word. (With suggested corrections.)

ASH Smyth 2/6/24 ASH Smyth 2/6/24

Peruvenirs

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

Becky Clark 1/18/24 Becky Clark 1/18/24

Blue Is The New Plaque

On the sanctity of Britain’s blue plaque scheme—and the delightful hoaxes it inspires.

Nathan Koblintz 1/15/24 Nathan Koblintz 1/15/24

Books I Judged By Their Covers (In Order Of How Mistaken I Was)

A bibliophile confesses.

Tim Cooper 1/12/24 Tim Cooper 1/12/24

I Once Met (But Didn’t Realise)… David Soul

RIP Hutch.

Howard Male 12/20/23 Howard Male 12/20/23

Merry Christmas from The Emigre

God bless us, every one! Christmas art by Howard Male.

The Emigre 12/18/23 The Emigre 12/18/23

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.

Tia K Iqbal 12/17/23 Tia K Iqbal 12/17/23

I Once Nearly Met... Arthur C. Clarke

A near miss on honeymoon in Sri Lanka.

Charity Norman 12/12/23 Charity Norman 12/12/23

Remember Me

An extract from Remember Me by Charity Norman, winner of the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel.

Tim Cooper 12/1/23 Tim Cooper 12/1/23

RIP Shane

Tim Cooper pays tribute to fellow punk, Shane MacGowan.

James Joyce 11/30/23 James Joyce 11/30/23

Erratica

Upon thorough exagmination, a complete list of the misprints in my Finnegans Wake.

Tim Cooper 11/27/23 Tim Cooper 11/27/23

Farewell to El Tel

How I would bend the ear of the late Terry Venables.

Richard Simon 11/25/23 Richard Simon 11/25/23

The Double Afterlife of Maali Almeida

How Shehan Karunatilaka’s Chats with the Dead became Booker Prize winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

ASH Smyth 11/23/23 ASH Smyth 11/23/23

'It is the living we should fear'

ASH Smyth reviews Chats with the Dead.

ASH Smyth 11/22/23 ASH Smyth 11/22/23

Many Moons Ago

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

Dominic Hilton 11/21/23 Dominic Hilton 11/21/23

JFK & Me

To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dominic Hilton recalls his giddy days in “Camelot”.

ASH Smyth 11/11/23 ASH Smyth 11/11/23

Brothers in Arms

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