Archives for March 2009
Words per minute #14: Richardson on Rigour
Mathematical expressions have, however, their special tendencies to pervert thought: the definiteness maybe spurious, existing in the equations but not in the phenomena to be described; and the brevity maybe due to the omission of the more important things, simply… continue reading »
Ivan Čkonjević at Caffe Berlin
There aren’t any good music venues in Podgorica, and it’s such a small city that there isn’t really a viable audience for much music at all. However that doesn’t stop a few enthusiastic promoters from trying their luck and bringing… continue reading »
Writing about writing
Writing about writing is usually a bad idea – who wants to hear about how you spent the day staring at a light switch and wondering how to get from A to B in your head? Mental. The Guardian has… continue reading »
Iraqi Kurdistan 1998
Granta magazine have taken it upon themselves to publish my recollection of northern Iraq at the end of the 1990s, entitled Fly Away Home. It’s a long while since I thought about Iraq, but now that it’s in my forebrain… continue reading »