Martin In The Margins

I've listed my ten best books of the year down the right-hand side of this page, using one of those Amazon widget things. I've cheat...

This is the UNICEF Photo of the Year : And this is the caption: He’s forty, she’s eleven. And they are a couple – the Afghan man Mohammed F....

One of the (many) good things , for me, about the online review Democratiya is the way it has introduced me to writers I wouldn't otherw...

Mark Lattimer provides a horrific account of routine violence against women in Iraqi Kurdistan: They lie in the Sulaimaniyah hospital morgue...

I've criticised Cambridge academic and Guardian columnist Pryamvada Gopal on a number of occasions for her circumlocutory root-caus...

My parents, who are active Methodists, were visiting us yesterday. We were discussing the designs for this year's Christmas stamps, assu...

Last Friday saw yours truly being profiled by Norm. This week it's the turn of Paul Berger, who blogs at Englishman in New York , a blo...