A Cloud In Trousers

I'm sitting down surrounded by books. Some books I have to reshelve. Some books have to go to my Oxfam book shop to stop me drowning in ...

From an interview in the Guardian with Nathaniel Borenstein I found this amusing essay on consulting for NATO in the late 1980s . Bizar...

I have just finished reading Gianrico Carofiglio's thoughtful first novel Involuntary Witness, translated from the Italian by Patrick Cr...

Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore put together a wonderful illustrated little book called The Medium is the Massage , punning on McLuhan...

In the current LRB Tariq Ali writes of his first visit, in 1973 to Pynongyang in the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (which...

We all think that Standard and Poor, and Moody's are a bunch of incompetent, corrupt and politically motivated gangsters, destroying val...

Like the proletariat, my books need organising. Here's an article in the Guardian all about book organisation . Here's a brillian...

Here's a party: (from an Interview between Teresa Toranska and Jakub Berman , Granta 17, (Autumn 1985), pp 47-65, p48) Berman: 'Onc...

Living as we all do in a kakistocracy it's good to have temporary perfections. It's also good to read, as it opens up new pathways i...