Helen Macdonald

hjm.bsky.social

16 October 2026 19:20

I am of course staying at the Bellevue Palace Hotel for this reason

Helen Macdonald

hjm.bsky.social

16 October 2026 19:20

For my birthday I have come to Bern on a George Smiley pilgrimage (waves at @nickharkaway.com)

Marina Benjamin

marinabenjamin.bsky.social

05 October 2026 21:04

The Italian diaspora longs for Italy, but sometimes Italy turns its back. Ben Faccini explores loyalty and longing in a moving essay for @aeon.co aeon.co/essays/itali...

Rónán Hession

ronanhession.bsky.social

04 September 2026 20:17

Nobel Prize in Literature being dished out on 8 October. Four non-Anglophne winners in a row so my guess is that it will be an English language winner. When I interviewed Jon Fosse last year he said he would like Marilynne Robinson to win. Who else? Colson Whitehead? Richard Ford? Margaret Atwood?

Rónán Hession

ronanhession.bsky.social

12 May 2026 07:42

Mount Fuji is shy – only visible 70 days a year – so we were lucky that the cloud dropped from the summit while we stopped to view it.