The invisible women in zoology lectures at Oxford, early 1950s. From Desmond Morris's book Watching

Unfortunately the next day was not that vast, extraneous expanse of time to which I had feverishly looked forward. When it drew to a close, my laziness and my painful struggle to overcome certain internal obstacles had simply lasted twenty-four hours longer.

My review of David Brooks's How to Know a Person for the TLS: joemoran.net/2024/03/02/how… via Joe Moran

My review of David Horspool's More Than a Game for the TLS: joemoran.net/2024/03/02/mor… via Joe Moran

This short film about the ‘non-playable characters’ in video games is really clever and thoughtful – aeon.co/videos/does-ca… via Aeon+Psyche

If anyone is in Lancaster on 22 Feb, I'm doing this lecture as part of the Lancaster University Public Lecture Series. It's free but you have to book here
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Loved Polly Morland's A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story. It's inspired by John Berger's A Fortunate Man and is better than the original in many ways, I think.

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A poem called 'Rate your life'

I reviewed Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television by Peter Biskind here: literaryreview.co.uk/from-cringe-to… via Literary Review

A poem made out of headlines to the 'Experience' column (In which readers are interviewed about their unusual experiences) in Saturday's Guardian

'Sport is limitlessly weird. I did not know that until the Covid pandemic put paid to them, racecourses all had saunas.'

Joe Moran (Joe Moran) on sport as a 'distorting mirror' of British society

the-tls.co.uk/articles/more-…

Please consider signing this petition to prevent catastrophic job cuts at Oxford Brookes.

Arts & humanities are besieged as a consequence of policy changes, among other things. Brookes won't be the last to go through this. Solidarity is essential.

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Another sort-of-found poem I did called 'I hope this finds you well'

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

I reviewed More Than a Game (a history of British sport) by David Horspool here the-tls.co.uk/articles/more-…

I did another poem made out of the headlines to Adrian Chiles's articles in the Guardian

I reviewed How to Know a Person by David Brooks here: the-tls.co.uk/articles/how-t…

A bit hesitant about posting this very personal thing I wrote, but I'm not sure many people see these tweets any more, so it's probably ok ... Couples: A Collective Life tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

'From a box bedroom you can greet the world' - from Andrew O'Hagan's introduction to Nick Cave's Complete Lyrics