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The Longform
Long-form editorial with drop caps. Slow reading, deep essays.
evening
The Last Hour of Daylight
Of all the hours in a day, I love the last one best, when the light goes long and gold and the world seems to hold its breath. A slow essay, written for the drop cap.
walking
The Long Walk Home
There are three ways home from the station, and I have been taking the longest for years. An essay about detours, tired legs and the small geography of a life.
attention
A Day Without Notifications
I silenced every buzz, chime and banner for twenty-four hours and kept a log. It was less saintly than I hoped and stranger than I feared. Here is the diary of a quiet Saturday.
cities
Why Slow Cities Seem to Read More
Nobody has counted, and I don't pretend to. But in the unhurried places I have lived, books come out on trams and park benches. A walking essay on pace, queues and the reading life.
letters
The Postscript, a Small Dignity
The afterthought at the foot of a letter is the most honest part of it. An essay on the lost art of the postscript, and the way a late sentence can say what the whole page could not.
boredom
In Praise of Being Bored
There was a time when a wet Sunday afternoon was a landscape to be crossed on foot. A long, wandering defence of boredom as the soil in which odd, private ideas take root.