Robin Kinross

This painting of a stitched section ('Circular') looks incidentally like a demonstration of paper grain: long grain (good!) on the left page, short/cross grain (not so good) on the right page.

more Saturday evening list-making

Saturday evening list-making

Wikipedia – still among the internet angels donate.wikimedia.org

On process, criteria and generative AI letterror.com/ai

Can remember when and where I heard the news of Miles's death – meeting/interviewing Petr van Blokland in Delft. The talk about digital typography stopped ...

Avoid the queues, see the tapestry in Reading

an oversized piece of wedding-cake neo-neo-classicism, with snipers and drones nesting on its top

How is that both versobooks.bsky.social and penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social are publishing Tom Overton's John Berger biography? www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... www.penguin.co.uk/books/295293...

On some books published by TLB: Peter Handke | Douglas Oliver & J.H. Prynne | John Wilkinson robinkinross.substack.com/p/four-books...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Post a picture that should be an ECM album cover.

Yes – I admit – rain. Drizzle, she said more precisely. Yes, actually drizzle.

_'Take care of things', Edward said_ capitalization of initial word only – would have taken care of this

In this connection I keep on hearing in my head the sane, measured, humane, critical voice of Stuart Hall

Your music tastes via three artists (no genres), Dutch band leaders only: 1. Gustav Leonhardt (1928–2012) 2. Misha Mengelberg (1935–2017) 3. Willem Breuker (1944–2010)

Yes, this is old-fashioned Oxford University Press English – but the rules are a little complex, for example 'improvisation' is spelled like that, for etymological reasons

Hatherley's balanced and perceptive assessment of the later John Berger, marred by "a certain folksy soulfulness". Good for him for saying this out loud, and good for NLR for publishing it. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

I felt that my eyes were already giving off a more steady look and stuck my hands into my trouser pockets with an ease that half an hour before was completely unknown to me.

Discussing these books by Irénée Scalbert robinkinross.substack.com/p/three-book...

Destination stones from the old Blackfriars station in London, rescued and reconfigured: when read across the rows – a surreal poem when read down the columns, its beautiful but more mundane

a pivotal book that changed the way many of us think about the UK – and a difficult one, partly because of its nature as a collection of discrete essays

Thinking of Rollins, Davis, and all the others of their generation, I remember Adam Shatz writing recently in the LRB: "Yet, paradoxically, it was jazz in particular, and Black music more generally, that prevented me, as it still does, from giving up on America." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

An early example of unjustified setting

and Sheila Jordan too

Max Roach Gustav Leonhardt Anthony Braxton András Schiff Lee Konitz Frans Bruggen Betty Carter Christian Zacharias Marilyn Crispell Christoph Prégardien

On two editions of Arundhati Roy’s latest book: one made in India, one made in the UK robinkinross.substack.com/p/arundhati-...

Memories of typography at Reading University, 1970s hyphenpress.co.uk/typography_r...

A space had formed around Boorman, as around a madman.

On Josephine Rombouts's 'Cliffrock Castle' robinkinross.substack.com/p/cliffrock-...

On Susan Owens's 'Constable's year' robinkinross.substack.com/p/constables... @thamesandhudson.bsky.social

Strange that just now there was peace and then suddenly it's war. The one followed the other as simply as Easter after Lent.

🇫🇷 Sen. Claude Malhuret: "I compared the Trump presidency to Nero's court. I was wrong. It's a court of miracles. An anti-vax ex heroin addict as Health Sec; a climate skeptic as Econ Sec; an alcoholic TV host as Def Sec; an ex Qatari agent as Attorney Gen; a Putin groupie as Homeland Security Sec."

these hollow men and their adverbs

New on Substack: Two books by John Morgan robinkinross.substack.com/p/two-books-...

Two books from Museums etc. robinkinross.substack.com/p/two-books-...

Something about Otabind substack.com/@robinkinros...

Europe depends on US companies to handle digital payments, putting our money at risk. A strong Digital Euro would give everyone safe, independent access to money. But banks and Big Tech want to kill the proposal. Sign the petition now: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-02...

Wordle today (UK English)

On two archive books robinkinross.substack.com/p/two-archiv...

Still a few tickets left for his 4 hour epic ‘For Philip Guston’ in London this Sunday. I’ll be on my way from Scotland… And the great Sheffield label www.anothertimbre.com are making his music available and accessible like it’s never been. Happy 100th Morty www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...

"Waiter," he asked suddenly, "do you have real Guinness?" "Sure", came the quiet answer. "Bottled in Dublin? You're not joking?"

www.theferret.scot/video-bagpip...

Remembering James Mosley hyphenpress.co.uk/2026/01/07/r...

Remembering James Mosley hyphenpress.co.uk/2026/01/07/r...

New post on 'Books that lie open' robinkinross.substack.com/p/reading-wi...