25^th April 2014

Time and the City

8.15am on a Monday morning in 1908. Ruth Belville leaves her modest house on St Luke’s Road in Maidenhead and walks to the station. She gets there 20 minutes later and boards a train for Paddington.… Read article

23^rd April 2013

Death and the Canal

A few months ago I watched a swan brain itself against the Cat and Mutton Bridge near Broadway Market in Hackney. I was walking on the towpath; it was flying along above the water, following the curve… Read article

Jon Day teaches English at King's College London, and writes for the London Review of Books, n+1, the Telegraph, the Financial Times and others. @Jonhinius