Pleased to be The Grid ⁦Observer New Review⁩ today, featuring images from a magnificent new addition to our photo collections ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩ from the Wilson Center, with thousands of albums & photobooks (all on our Archives & Manuscripts catalogue) available for research!

Tomorrow is Earth Day.
Watch this space for a short 8 min film by The Beautiful Truth with me about the 40,000-year story of animals and us. 'BEASTLY' out tomorrow.

Will you look at the two daughters of Nome!!

My bit on the Venice Biennale, and all the politics

Happy birthday to Rome!
According to myth, the city was founded on the 21st April 753 BC by Romulus after he killed his twin brother, Remus. #NataleDiRoma 🐺

The 2024 Faber/Observer graphic short story prize launches today: guest judges are brilliant ⁦Luke Healy⁩ and Posy Simmonds ⁦Faber Books⁩

Talking to brilliant octavia bright about Hagstone on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book today. 4pm online, app or radio.

Bonus: on the same show, Kathryn Scanlan will be discussing the work of Moyra Davey.

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I was 16 when we moved house in advance of my parents’ divorce. Many things were jettisoned. Yesterday, I went back for the first time. The couple who bought it still live there and to my amazement they showed me some toys my mother gave them. Here is my rocking horse Jellybaby.

Caillebotte doggie.

Such a brilliant, beautiful book

Five years…a sketchbook of political drawings. Watch ‘The week that was…’ at youtube.com/@TheCyclingFish

Happened to find myself on the Victoria line today admiring the tiles at Blackhorse Road underground station. They were designed by Hans Unger (1915-1975) in 1969.

#design #postwarart #london #london underground #blackhorseroad #tubestations #hansunger

It was a rare privilege to spend some time with the “trillion dancing robots” of Daniel #Dennett ’s mind for this piece, he was a formidable and generous man RIP theguardian.com/books/2006/mar…

“So they killed Cassandra first ‘cause she feared the worst/ And tried to tell the town”

If only Taylor Swift had been available for comment last week when the latest fresco to emerge from Pompeii Sites was being discussed.
#Cassandra

Ease please share. We hit the news stands today to herald the launch of the publication #FreeloavesonFridays at 6.30pm in The Foundling Museum. 100 care experienced authors speak truth: from a chef to a UN Diplomat. Find it online

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Last day of this promo! Anti memoir! Does what it says on the tin! No professional gossip a feature not a bug! Get it now, cheap!

From the government whose greatest hits include the meteoric rise in food bank use, fuel poverty, kids too cold & hungry to learn, falling life expectancy & the deliberate destruction of the NHS.

Victim blaming & pure, naked cruelty.

For shame, Rishi Sunak.

Racing back from Venice to get to Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury for the launch of #FreeLoavesonFriday a book of 100 care experienced authors.

Drumroll please… the 2024 #Discoveries longlist is here!

Huge congratulations to all 16 writers, as yet unpublished, who wowed the judges with their novels-in-progress. Find out more about them: bit.ly/Discoveries24