Books – Regular Marvels

I Remember Leicester: Catching up, Part 1

‘I Remember Leicester’ did not start out as a Regular Marvel, largely because I didn’t know at the beginning that

As I worked on it, I realised that it is another Regular Marvel, the simplest, easiest but in some ways the most beautiful yet

Why do writers quote other writers? The reasons are complex, and do not preclude such weaknesses as showing off—no one

‘Hope today is a contraband passed from hand to hand and from story to story.’ John Berger, Bento’s Sketchbook, 2011

‘You cannot understand the migrant if you haven’t heard his story first.’ Gazmend Kapllani In the course of working on

Yesterday I sent the draft text of Bread and Salt to the artists whose experiences of coming to Europe form

Winter Fires: Art and agency in old age is published today. Old age haunts the human imagination. Nowadays, it also

Here are Mik Godley’s final portraits, which are reproduced in Winter Fires. They start with photographs I made, in discussion with the