...in which I have reviewed They Flew: A History of the Impossible by Carlos Eire ~

Our books of the year - as chosen by Magnus, Patrick Christie, Bronwyn Scott-McCharen, Stuart Walton, Anna Aslanyan, Jude Cook & John Hay review31.co.uk/essay/view/120…

Banning Christmas in the name of piety. Could it be worth another go? worldoffinewine.com/news-features/…

A good new year to one and all. Or what you will ~

No more photos of stacks of books, please, or assiduously copied-out quotes. It's a good moment to start thinking for yourself ~

This shit is so over ~

In time to come, #WorldBookDayUK, rather than celebrating literary works, will be the occasion for building ritualistic bonfires of them ~ theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Drinking alone in the Tang Dynasty worldoffinewine.com/news-features/…

"What emerges is... a conception of criticism that is strikingly conservative in its social hopes & expectations." Stuart Walton on Michel Chaouli's SOMETHING SPEAKS TO ME: WHERE CRITICISM BEGINS review31.co.uk/article/view/9…

Still good amazon.co.uk/Intoxicology-C…

My review of Rory Waterman's latest collection from @carcanet hkrbooks.com/2024/06/10/com…

Shipwrecked wine. It's the wave of the future worldoffinewine.com/homepage-featu…

"An ideology of self-discovery came into being to justify them, as did a litany of cautionary tales." Stuart Walton reviews Erika Dyck's PSYCHEDELICS: A VISUAL ODYSSEY and Aidan Lyon's PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE: REVEALING THE MIND review31.co.uk/essay/view/123…

Not quite in time to give the Nobel committee the nudge I'd hoped, but here anyway is my review of Bei Dao's momentous new poetry volume, Sidetracks hkrbooks.com/2024/10/31/sid…

The Hong Kong Review of Books has published a review of my recent book, Sleepless Nights, a critical study of love and romance hkrbooks.com/2024/11/11/sle…

"Dave Win in his seventies sounds much the same as he did when he was at Bampton School, with the same physical desires, the same aesthetic proclivities..." Stuart Walton on Alan Hollinghust's OUR EVENINGS review31.co.uk/article/view/9…

🍷 Agency author Stuart Walton explores how early cinema 🎬, like the Lumière brothers’ Partie de Cartes, highlights the deep-rooted significance of wine in French culture. Read more: worldoffinewine.com/news-features/… World of Fine Wine Stuart Walton #LumièreBrothers

Considering pop history from the Marxist viewpoint review31.co.uk/article/view/9…

"Throughout the book, Manning emphasises the collectivity to which pop has consistently appealed ever since it turned tribal in the early 1950s." Stuart Walton on Toby Manning's MIXING POP AND POLITICS review31.co.uk/article/view/9…

The changing face of alcohol reflected in self-portraits with wine worldoffinewine.com/news-features/…