Francois Matarasso

Lying fallow

Someone asked me yesterday what I was doing now that the book was finished. ‘Resting,’ I replied, and then, since

At a time when the lamps are once again going out, not only in Europe but across the world, I’ve

About 40 years ago, I found a small treasure in a secondhand bookshop—an old copy of Clarendon’s History of the

Last year, I was invited to a meeting organised by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. The conference, ‘Beyond Us versus Them –

Today, I turn sixty. Such anniversaries are foreseeable, and this one’s long presence on my personal horizon was a reason

Dear Michael, Thank you for your reply to my piece about democracy and the Brexit Referendum. I was going to write

Yesterday I was asked why I accept the result of the 2016 referendum in which a majority of English and

Every month for almost 20 years, a memo about cultural policy and administration has been sent by email from

My father and grandfather survived the Shoah, thanks to the Greek resistance. My grandmother survived because she was Christian. Thousands,

Returning to Britain yesterday after two weeks in a distant country, I felt grateful to be home, and to feel