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About a boy 25 Aug 2013 | 01:32 am
My guest blog for Mindbuzzler.com, about my lovely share horse Moritz, is here. Thank you Kirstin for the opportunity to talk about the little soul!
The far too occasional update 27 Jun 2013 | 01:17 pm
Revisions on my first novel are well underway (for which read: I’m completely rewriting the damn thing) and I’ve embarked on agent submissions for the second, which means waiting. [Father Jack voice]...
Two forthcoming publications 10 Jun 2013 | 05:49 pm
Two excellent pieces of news recently: my conversation with Rowan Williams about Teresa of Avila will appear in Theology in 2014, and my review of his new book about Thomas Merton should appear in The...
Faith in the Public Square 22 May 2013 | 12:24 am
This is an absolutely shameless plug — by way of a placeholder while I prepare to update my site — for my recent joint review of Rowan Williams’ Faith in the Public Square, which you can see here. My...
Update: Rio and Lula 24 Jul 2012 | 09:09 pm
I’ll be spending August in Rio as a Santander Mobility scholar, visiting the Universidade Federal and finding out all about Lula, his self-representation and his cultural context. I’m going to try to...
Ferguson and Mishra 8 Dec 2011 | 12:29 am
Have you ever–unlikely as it is–wondered just what I think about the recent conflict over Pankaj Mishra’s review of Niall Ferguson’s Civilization? Well, you can click here to see my VL post on the su...
Two recent posts: Lula and Fidel 25 Nov 2011 | 01:39 am
Following the announcement that Brazil’s former (and some say future) president has laryngeal cancer, I posted a thought piece on VL about Lula, his portrayal in the media and the whole sticky issue o...
Catching up 31 Oct 2011 | 10:13 pm
It’s been rather an eventful time recently — all good! — with a new part-time editor job alongside the PhD, so I apologise for this late update. October kicked off with a visit to Nantes, site of thi...
VL Podcast transcript: Civilization by Niall Ferguson 30 Aug 2011 | 11:58 am
Listen to this podcast here. Hello there. My name is Kirsty and I’m a PhD student in History at Queen’s University, Belfast. You may know me as the one who goes on and on and on about Trotsky. Now...
Spanish version of today’s interview on VL 13 Jul 2011 | 12:10 am
Here is the original version of the interview with Trotsky specialist Gabriel García Higueras. Please forgive any language errors on the part of the interviewer! ¿Cómo descubriste a Trotsky? Ese de...
