Nigeness

Browsing in the Johnson Society's 2023 Transactions, I found a piece with this arresting title. It's a transcript of the year's ...

I've just finished reading one of the most extraordinary novels I have ever come across, one that actually left me, well, aghast is the...

 For Holocaust Memorial Day, this little poem, which was discovered at Theresienstadt when the camp was liberated. Written on a sheet of thi...

 'Standing next to a small youth at the entrance scholarship examination at the Royal College of Art in London, Eric Ravilious could not...

Manet Day again (the anniversary of his birth in 1832) – they come round so fast... In keeping with a long-standing Nigeness tradition, I...

 For some reason, I was reading about the sestina, a verse form created by a troubadour in the twelfth century, when I came across a surpris...

 'You look like a local,' said the man who hailed me this morning as I strode along by Minster Pool. He wanted to ask me about the l...