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Yesterday, I launched Looking for Wisdom, my new philosophy project, and I’m delighted to already have a load of people signing up to get weekly doses of philosophy sent directly…

I’ve had a new piece published on the BBC Travel website about the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, and the subtle art of aylyak (айляк), an untranslatable Bulgarian word that captures…

Dr. Elee Kirk’s research on children, photography and natural history museums was a thing of beauty. Elee was a natural researcher. She worked in the Oxford University Museum of Natural…

For all you philosophers out there, I’ve now made my three month introductory philosophy course freely available on Soundcloud. The course explores the complexities of human nature, and what to…

I’m really excited to be working alongside my Wind&Bones collaborator Hannah Stevens, and the brilliant team at Flatwyse, to offer a new six-week intensive class on creative nonfiction. The class…

Over the past few months, I’ve been working as consultant editor for Dorling Kindersley, on their forthcoming Philosophy: A Visual Encyclopedia. It’s been an enormously fun project to be involved…

It’s been a busy few weeks, putting the finishing touches to my next book, Hello, Stranger: How to Welcome the World (Granta 2021), and working on another few projects about…

This week, I’ve started a new, and incredibly fun project: a pod-class called “Philosophy: The Arts of Living”, thanks to the people at the shiny new platform, Flatwyse. So, I…

This week, with Wind&Bones, I embarked upon a new venture here in Sofia: a weekly café for writers and activists, which we’re running in collaboration with Greenpeace, Bulgaria. Our first…