Richard Simon
Richard Simon, a native of Old Ceylon, is a reformed adman who mostly writes history now.
Thomia, his 'unauthorised' history of St Thomas's College, will be published in 2025.
How Shehan Karunatilaka’s Chats with the Dead became Booker Prize winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
Martin Amis was someone I thought of as a kind of elder sibling, hero, avatar, even scapegoat.
“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.
Richard Simon on the machine in art, computerised poetry, and trying to earn a living in the Catch-22 NFT market.
State of the Nation: unfulfilled promises and un-fuel-filled petrol pumps in Sri Lanka.