Postcard from St Louis

20th June 2024

John Wyver writes: welcome to the fifth Postcard (with two more scheduled) from my and my wife Clare Paterson's recent mid-west road trip, in this case embracing our visits, for two nights in each city, to Indianapolis and St Louis. more

Postcard from Columbus the second

16th June 2024

John Wyver writes: with apologies for the hiatus in delivering these, welcome to the fourth Postcard from the American road trip that my wife Clare Paterson and I recently took across the mid-west. The first three Postcards are here, more

Postcard from Columbus the first

31st May 2024

John Wyver writes: We are on the road! Having left Chicago, we drove to Fort Wayne and Sidney, Ohio (day one), on to Columbus, Ohio (day two) and then to Columbus, Indiana (day three). Not that it’s been entirely great, more

Postcard from Chicago, part one

26th May 2024

John Wyver writes: Although posts of this kind are not directly related to the company's operations, I occasionally scratch out accounts of my travels and other doings. In this case, my wife Clare and I are now on a long-planned more

Postcard from Yale

6th April 2024

John Wyver writes: In November the distinguished art historian Lynda Nead (link to her page at Birkbeck, where she is now Emerita Professor), who is also a friend, gave the prestigious Paul Mellon Lectures at the V&A. In four more

Postcard from New York

2nd April 2024

John Wyver writes: On the way to New Haven for a screening and panel at Yale (so, yes, look out for another Postcard from there), I spent a busy day and a half in New York. These was a time more

On display

8th November 2021

John Wyver writes: I'm pleased that I seem to have re-started regular Sunday links, and now my aim is to return to posting more regularly on topics that I've mused about before, including television and film, more

Coventry conversation [updating]

9th June 2021

John Wyver writes: I know that posting comments to blog posts is so late noughties, and as a consequence no-one does it anymore, but I did want to try this as an experiment - and I'm very grateful to those more