Keith Miller
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Is there an exception to the rule that the more closely critics cleave to the evaluative/traffic-warden school of reviewing, the unlikelier they are to spark joy when they turn to novels and other *creative writing* projects?
October 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Is there an exception to the rule that the more closely critics cleave to the evaluative/traffic-warden school of reviewing, the unlikelier they are to spark joy when they turn to novels and other *creative writing* projects?
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‘There was something about modern buildings that wasn’t quite decent.’
Keith Miller on King Charles’s interventions in public debates about architecture
Keith Miller on King Charles’s interventions in public debates about architecture
Anti-modernist crusader
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August 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
‘There was something about modern buildings that wasn’t quite decent.’
Keith Miller on King Charles’s interventions in public debates about architecture
Keith Miller on King Charles’s interventions in public debates about architecture
Checked and found out that I, too, have been used to train AI, so if your quarterly report opens with a throat-clearing intro about limestone or 1970s science fiction you'll know who to thank
April 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Checked and found out that I, too, have been used to train AI, so if your quarterly report opens with a throat-clearing intro about limestone or 1970s science fiction you'll know who to thank
Here on the east coast of Sicily it’s a balmy 16º, and the Italians are all dressed as if for a (curiously elegant) polar expedition
January 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Here on the east coast of Sicily it’s a balmy 16º, and the Italians are all dressed as if for a (curiously elegant) polar expedition
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Third day of Guardian & Observer strikes on Thurs 12 and Fri 13 to feature carols, protest songs & a festive picket line as campaign to #SavetheObserver continues.
Please show your support by re-posting & joining us at the Guardian’s HQ, details 👇
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Please show your support by re-posting & joining us at the Guardian’s HQ, details 👇
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/thi...
Third day of Guardian & Observer strikes to feature carols, protest songs and a festive picket line as campaign to Save the Observer continues
Show your support for striking Guardian and Observer Journalists
www.nuj.org.uk
December 11, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Third day of Guardian & Observer strikes on Thurs 12 and Fri 13 to feature carols, protest songs & a festive picket line as campaign to #SavetheObserver continues.
Please show your support by re-posting & joining us at the Guardian’s HQ, details 👇
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/thi...
Please show your support by re-posting & joining us at the Guardian’s HQ, details 👇
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/thi...
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Statement on decision by The Scott Trust and GMG boards to approve the sale in principle of the Observer to Tortoise Media: NUJ general secretary-elect Laura Davison said: “Members at the Guardian and Observer will be angry and extremely disappointed that The Scott Trust and GMG boards have chosen..
December 6, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Statement on decision by The Scott Trust and GMG boards to approve the sale in principle of the Observer to Tortoise Media: NUJ general secretary-elect Laura Davison said: “Members at the Guardian and Observer will be angry and extremely disappointed that The Scott Trust and GMG boards have chosen..
I have three one-month vittles subscriptions to give out if anyone wants to read past the first paragraph of all the things that caught their eye in the past - dm me if interested, if they do dms on here
December 3, 2024 at 2:26 PM
I have three one-month vittles subscriptions to give out if anyone wants to read past the first paragraph of all the things that caught their eye in the past - dm me if interested, if they do dms on here
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We read all the cold pitches we receive, and we've had at least one writer get their very first print byline in the last five issues.
Send us your best ideas to editorial@the-fence.com - we look forward to hearing from you
Send us your best ideas to editorial@the-fence.com - we look forward to hearing from you
When I was in my twenties I would email newspaper editors in the hope they might give me a break. I was a total nobody (some would argue I still am). The only person who emailed back was the editor of The Observer Roger Alton. He always got back and it led to me being published in the paper.
November 24, 2024 at 3:48 PM
We read all the cold pitches we receive, and we've had at least one writer get their very first print byline in the last five issues.
Send us your best ideas to editorial@the-fence.com - we look forward to hearing from you
Send us your best ideas to editorial@the-fence.com - we look forward to hearing from you
I would argue it’s Poor Artists by Zarina Muhammad and Gabrielle de La Puente aka The White Pube rather than Poor Artists aka The White Pube by Zarina Muhammad and Gabrielle de La Puente but it’s not my department, anyway I mostly loved this www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
Poor Artists aka The White Pube | Book review | The TLS
Poor Artists may or may not function as a survival guide for young artists – there’s a lot of stuff about money, living conditions, the hell of rivalries
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November 22, 2024 at 11:54 AM
I would argue it’s Poor Artists by Zarina Muhammad and Gabrielle de La Puente aka The White Pube rather than Poor Artists aka The White Pube by Zarina Muhammad and Gabrielle de La Puente but it’s not my department, anyway I mostly loved this www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
My friend Charlotte has written a beautiful, wry, loving obituary of her father Peter www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Peter Higgins obituary
Other lives: Humane urologist in Stoke-on-Trent committed to improving the experience of patients in the NHS
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November 20, 2024 at 8:58 PM
My friend Charlotte has written a beautiful, wry, loving obituary of her father Peter www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Afternoon, new followers. Twitter's sudden fall is worrying news for small publications like ours. If you like what we do, buy a magazine from the archive or even a subscription for the year.
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Shop
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November 17, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Afternoon, new followers. Twitter's sudden fall is worrying news for small publications like ours. If you like what we do, buy a magazine from the archive or even a subscription for the year.
www.the-fence.com/shop/
www.the-fence.com/shop/
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Books of the Year 2024: Our contributors choose their favourites www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
The TLS Books of the Year 2024: Our contributors decide
Visit the Times Bookshop to purchase the books below DAVID ABULAFIA In Courage and Compassion: A Jewish boyhood in German-occupied Greece (Berghahn), Tony Molho, a celebrated historian of Renaissance ...
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November 15, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Books of the Year 2024: Our contributors choose their favourites www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
I am in @thetls.bsky.social twice this week: suggesting three (3) BOTYs and reviewing my neighbour and occasional (in between haircuts) celebrity lookalike Jay Rayner
November 14, 2024 at 6:30 PM
I am in @thetls.bsky.social twice this week: suggesting three (3) BOTYs and reviewing my neighbour and occasional (in between haircuts) celebrity lookalike Jay Rayner