‘Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire’ has been shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize, which will be announced at a dinner on Monday, May 24.
My Athens piece, ‘The Calossus of Maroussi’, has been published in the current issue of the London Review of Books (27 May). I’ll let you have 2 extracts that were cut from the essay, for the website.
Iain
Also see this article (thanks to Lenore).