Destination stones from the old Blackfriars station in London, rescued and reconfigured:
when read across the rows – a surreal poem
when read down the columns, its beautiful but more mundane
and Sheila Jordan too
Max Roach
Gustav Leonhardt
Anthony Braxton
András Schiff
Lee Konitz
Frans Bruggen
Betty Carter
Christian Zacharias
Marilyn Crispell
Christoph Prégardien
An early example of unjustified setting
Memories of typography at Reading University, 1970s
hyphenpress.co.uk/typography_r...
On two editions of Arundhati Roy’s latest book: one made in India, one made in the UK
robinkinross.substack.com/p/arundhati-...
a pivotal book that changed the way many of us think about the UK – and a difficult one, partly because of its nature as a collection of discrete essays
the truth about Miles
Richard Carter is, among other things, an expert on Wardell Gray
www.allaboutjazz.com/discovering-...
Thinking of Rollins, Davis, and all the others of their generation, I remember Adam Shatz writing recently in the LRB:
"Yet, paradoxically, it was jazz in particular, and Black music more generally, that prevented me, as it still does, from giving up on America."
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
