Monthly Archives: October 2008

The House of Wittgenstein

The greatest philosopher of the 20th century was a disappointment to his family. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Viennese industrialist father had hoped his son would become an engineer. And Ludwig’s pianist brother Paul was regarded by his family as “not as accomplished” as his sibling Hans, a musical genius who mysteriously disappeared in 1902…
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London Calling

London Calling: High Culture and Low Life in the Capital Since 1968, edited by Jessica Cargill Thompson and me, is published by Ebury Press and Time Out Guides on October 16. Here’s the blurb:
London has changed beyond all recognition since 1968 - the year that Time Out was born. London Calling uses the magazine’s unique [...]

Forthcoming

In the works: a piece on the late David Foster Wallace; a review of Mark Rowlands’ fascinating and idiosyncratic book The Philosopher and the Wolf; and, fingers crossed, a profile of Kwame Anthony Appiah.