Taproot: A newsletter on literature and culture
Leo Robsonbooks, films, intellectual history, the creative process
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From California to Cagliari, Shakespearean to hooligan: Bill Buford on his time 'among the thugs'
I chatted to the editor, reporter, and memoirist Bill Buford about his extensively researched football book Among the Thugs (1991):
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/07/29/the-theater-of-sport-bill-buford-revisits-among-the-thugs/...
Thoughts on Christopher Nolan's odyssey to The Odyssey
I have been pretty interested in the films of the writer-director Christopher Nolan since I attended a screening by chance really of his unheralded debut Following at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in the summer of 1998.
Since...
How to Be a Critic
Chatted away about Franco-Anglo-American criticism of journalistic, academic, and critical kinds with Leonard Benardo, the editor of The Ideas Letter:
https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/closer-to-rude-than-snide/
I gave an interview. . .
I talked at decent length with Leonard Benardo, the editor of The Ideas Letter and a vice president of the Open Society Foundations, about what’s good about criticism and some of the things it has done and can do. . .
https://www.theideasl...
Granta film series / Joachim Trier debut / 2.7.26
THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2026*
7.30 p.m.
In tandem with the Spring 2026 issue of Granta, devoted to Scandinavian writer, Regent Street Cinema will be showing Reprise (2006), a film about novelists in Oslo, the debut of director Joachim Trier...
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I am writer based in London, specializing in cultural journalism, bylines in the New Statesman, New Left Review, New Yorker.
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