What a collection of writers

Here’s the Critical Quarterly special issue about John Berger, with essays about food, time, transcendence, the portrayal of women, Turner, Picasso (x2), and much much more, featuring @LamornaAsh, Henry Mance, Sophie Elmhirst, Jonathan Nunn, @marina_warn et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678705/2…

A brief Substack on our Critical Quarterly John Berger special leorobson.substack.com/p/john-berger-…

I'm late to this from Leo Robson in @critquarterly, but it looks genuinely excellent. Freely available, too.

‘ Most of Honey from a Weed doesn’t take the form of recipes but digressions on things that have happened to her…stories of peasants’. Jonathan Nunn on Patience Gray, part of a fascinating essay on peasant food in this issue of Critical Quarterly edited by Leo Robson

Our new special issue 'Solitudes Past and Present' is edited by James Morland,  Akshi Singh and Charlie Williams. It's a fascinating issue- take a look! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678705/2…

The Critical Quarterly editorial group (of which I’m part) is looking for contributors to the revamped Reviews section — new books but also ‘revaluations’. Next issue is on the life, work, and legacy of Christopher Hitchens. DM me and/or Joe Joe Williams with ideas or for details

Our new issue, 65.3, is out now! Check out David Trotter on Coleridge's Natural Telegraphy, some new Keywords - 'Stress', 'Matter' and 'Care' - and papers on Doris Lessing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678705/2…

At last someone is saying it onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cr…

The essay I most enjoyed writing was this piece for Critical Quarterly, undertaken at the behest of Leo Robson (so you can blame him). It's about John Berger, Cairo, and Yeats' old dilemma about life and work: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… (3/8)

Peter Womack’s article, available on early view, surveys recent debates over the use of the word ‘Terrorist’. Have a look: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

👀👀👀👀 new article on TSE and Poland by my very brilliant friend ⁦Juliette Bretan⁩ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our first Seminar of term will be: 'Take this Hammer: Work, Song and Crisis' Book launch for author Paul Rekret with speakers: Paul Rekret Marie Thompson Ashwani Sharma & Anthony Iles. 4 October 2024, 5:30–7:30pm UCL IAS @ucl-ias.bsky.social G17, ground floor, South Wing ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…