Review: ‘Nightingales In Berlin – Searching For The Perfect Sound’, David Rothenberg (University of Chicago Press, 2019)

David Rothenberg has carved out a somewhat crooked niche as a celebrated musician-cum-birdsong investigator, and for some time has been … More

Literary Review review: ‘Homing – On Pigeons, Dwellings, And Why We Return’, Jon Day (John Murray, 2019)

A memoir of pigeon-keeping and middle-class life in flux, Jon Day’s ‘Homing’ is a sort of ‘P Is For Pigeon’.

The story of human history
—from a bird’s eye view.

In returning, nearly 30 years on, to the territories he last explored in his 1992 Trabant travelogue Stalin’s Nose, Rory … More

We have always believed in the healing power of our natural landscape, one way or another – but has it been overstated?

How are we to novelise the sixth great extinction?

Whatever humanity is, I think humour is at the heart of it.

The central message of this book, Jeremy Purseglove writes, is that ‘we may nibble away at the planet, but we cannot afford to swallow the lot’.

As we slosh through a wet summer it’s good to spend a little time reflecting on water as a vibrant and vivifying thing.