Thanks to my friend Elizabeth I found out about an amazing project called City of Asylum that tries to help writers around the world who a...

Today I learned that I didn't actually know anything about the Unabomber . It's a word I heard a lot on the radio here during the l...

Today I learned that I really do like Jimmy Fallon. I don't watch much US television. Although there are individual shows that I love ...

Today I learned more about an ongoing dynamic in America, the tension between the individual and the collective. We see it all the time, t...

Sometimes you don't realise you're late until you turn up. The first time I arrived in New Orleans, at six o'clock on a Frid...

My life is pretty great. Occasionally, for example, I get taken to New York. My wife has to go there for work often enough that I ge...

One day, at the end of what used to be called the Third Form, I was called into the office of the Head of Lower School for what turned out t...