The Sunday dozen

15th March 2026

John Wyver writes: Posted late in the day, for which apologies, but here is the usual miscellany of articles and audio that I have found engaging and enriching this week. The header image is John Constable's 'Cloud more

54 reasons to be cheerful in 2025

30th December 2025

John Wyver writes: Welcome to an eclectic year-end list of the books, exhibitions, films, performances and other stuff (although not much music) that enhanced and enriched my 2025. There are some obvious choices here, but for the most part I more

The Sunday dozen

30th November 2025

John Wyver writes: Another collection of articles and a video that have engaged me this week, embracing politics and the visual arts, melodrama, children's television, PTA and Pynchon, neolithic monuments and a modernist lido, building Jerusalem in post-war Britain, the more

Sunday links

21st November 2016

The weekly round-up of links to things that I've found interesting and stimulating over the past few days, with apologies to those who I failed to credit for bringing them to my attention. • Obama reckons with a Trump presidency: remarkable more