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Showpieces:
Posts that have received the most interest or Google searches (or which I slaved over and have a special affection for)
- And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short – Hobbes distilled: a quick summary of an abridged edition of his work, Of Man.
- an audience with J G Ballard – attending a reading and Q&A around the launch of Kingdom Come.
- return of The Pillow Book – getting a flavour for Japanese literature.
- forgotten gestures – memories and evocation in a Paul Scott novel.
- Three Emperors, part two – notes on the exhibition of Chinese art at the Royal Academy of Art, London.
- the beast is slain – thoughts on finishing Roger Lewis’s Anthony Burgess biography.
- peppiss – highlights from Claire Tomalin’s biography, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self.
- Ozu’s Noriko trilogy – descriptions of this famous trilogy of low-key Japanese film masterpieces.
- medici money – three things I learned from reading Tim Parks’s business history book, Medici Money.
Words to delight and repel you:
- Maskell words – from John Banville’s The Untouchable,with protagonist Victor Maskell.
- Enderby words – from Anthony Burgess’s Enderby novels, with protagonist poet F.X. Enderby.
- what do you know about Archimedes? – from Gustave Flaubert’s The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas.
Photography:
The photos featured on NTC are drawn from my Flickr account. You can view my Flickr photos here.
