Daggers at the Font
An outtake from Thomia: The Entangled Histories of Lanka & Her Greatest Public School, out today.
The Double Afterlife of Maali Almeida
How Shehan Karunatilaka’s Chats with the Dead became Booker Prize winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
The Amis Effect: A Fan Piece
Martin Amis was someone I thought of as a kind of elder sibling, hero, avatar, even scapegoat.
The Guitarists’ Guitarists’ Guitarist
“The sound that flowed out of the cans was like nothing I’d ever heard before. I thought it was the most beautiful sound in the world.” Richard Simon pays tribute to his hero, the late great Jeff Beck.
#NFThankyou! Working on the Blockchain Gang
Richard Simon on the machine in art, computerised poetry, and trying to earn a living in the Catch-22 NFT market.
Aragalaya Blues
State of the Nation: unfulfilled promises and un-fuel-filled petrol pumps in Sri Lanka.