Nigeness

 Today is, believe it or not, World No Tobacco Day, an annual observance instituted in 1987 by the World Health Organisation, the outfit tha...

 The new issue of Slightly Foxed , the refreshingly independent-minded literary quarterly, is out now, and is, as always, full of good stuff...

 Time for a poem... This is by Donald Justice – a plea for forgiveness addressed not to God but to Satan. Which might seem perverse, but isn...

 And still the deaths keep on coming... The latest batch includes George Logan (Dr Evadne Hinge of the fondly remembered musical duo Hinge a...

 News of the imminent Insect Apocalypse, about which St David Attenborough was warning us recently (citing a decidedly dubious research find...

 This crowded portrait by Jacques-Emile Blanche (Dieppe's finest) shows the pianist Marcelle Meyer surrounded by five of the group of co...

 The news of Martin Amis's death came as an awful shock. Quite irrationally, I'd always thought of him as a young writer, even thoug...