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Bruce Chatwin

March 2022

  • My Brilliant Friend.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 mirrored lives in fiction

    From Oscar Wilde to Daisy Johnson, parallel lives – and what they say about choices and circumstance – have long been a source of fascination and inspiration for novelists

July 2019

  • James Wilby (as Maurice) and Hugh Grant in the 1987 film of EM Forster’s novel.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 queer rural books

    Sexual freedom is most often associated with the city, but a small but growing canon including EM Forster and Sarah Waters tells a different story

September 2018

  • Opinion is divided over whether a mobile mast should be built at Capel-y-ffin near this rural scene.

    Writers’ wilderness haven split over Brecon Beacons phone mast plan

    Novelist Ian McEwan is among literary figures objecting to plans for a 17.5-metre tower

October 2017

  • Paul Daley

    Postcolonial
    Travel and endless talk connected me to details Chatwin’s Songlines missed

    Paul Daley
    Bruce Chatwin’s book opened my mind to Indigenous spiritual belief. I’ve since learned to glimpse beyond his take on ‘songlines’

September 2017

  • Bruce Chatwin by Jane Bown June 1987

    ‘Dazzling and worrying’: my memories of Bruce Chatwin and In Patagonia

    Forty years ago, Chatwin’s debut book transformed travel writing. But just 12 years later, its author was dead. The Observer theatre critic, Chatwin’s editor for that book, reflects on a brief, brilliant career

February 2017

  • Tom Whyman

    Utopian thinking
    Utopian thinking: let’s embrace precariousness as the road to security

    Tom Whyman
    Bruce Chatwin understood how ‘civilisation’ represses our need to wander. The ‘gig economy’ may allow us to ditch the ballast of routine for the tonic of change

October 2016

  • A person holds onto the fence marking the border between the US and Mexico in Juárez.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about borders

    From Bruce Chatwin to Cormac McCarthy, these are some of the best stories about what happens when boundaries – physical, political and psychological – are crossed

July 2016

  • Smouldering bushland at Faulconbridge in New South Wales.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about the Australian bush

    From Miles Franklin to Bruce Chatwin, these writers show how tightly this spectacular but dangerous territory is bound up with the country’s identity

April 2015

  • Musicians of the Romanes Gypsy circus on their way through Paris.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about itinerants, nomads and migration

    Gypsy to Bedouin, mass movements to travelling singers, blues, folk, or rock on the road, suggest songs springing from or inspired by a life of no fixed abode

March 2015

  • Dries Van Noten : Runway - Paris Fashion Week

    The Fashion spring/summer 2015
    Bohemian like you: all hail the new generation of male style icons

    This season, designers are incorporating the impulsive spirit of travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the non-conformism of Russian dancer Rudolph Nurayev and the rock star charisma of Keith Richards. Relax, guys, and get those buttons undone

November 2014

  • Llangattock escarpment in the Brecon Beacons

    Top 10s
    The top 10 books of rural Wales

    From Alan Garner to RS Thomas, Bruce Chatwin to Dylan Thomas, the mythic power of place in these works casts a potent spell, writes Cynan Jones

September 2014

  • 'PRIDE AND PREJUDICE' FILM - 2005

    Top 10s
    The top 10 walks in books

    From Laurie Lee’s departure for Spain one sunny morning to Flora’s unfortunate sexual odyssey in Cold Comfort Farm, Duncan Minshull chooses the best literary journeys on foot

May 2014

  • Deborah Rogers

    Deborah Rogers, 'legendary' literary agent, has died

    Tributes pour in for agent behind star authors including Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and AS Byatt, 'who defined literary taste'

October 2013

  • Sir Nigel Shadbolt (left) and Sir Tim Berners-Lee

    Datablog
    Obama to Berners-Lee, Snow to Domesday: a history of open data

    Peter Kimpton
  • David Bowie in 1973

    David Bowie's top 100 must-read books

March 2013

  • Penultimate app

    The networker
    How Bruce Chatwin's notebooks continue to shape the virtual word

    The late author's beloved Moleskine seems to be having a profound influence on its tablet computer-based cousins, writes John Naughton

September 2012

  • Kardamyli

    On the trail of Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece

    Ahead of a new Patrick Leigh Fermor biography, Kevin Rushby visits Greece's Mani peninsula, home of the great man and unsung resting place of another British travel writing giant, Bruce Chatwin

June 2012

  • Moleskine notebooks … the best of their kind?

    Shortcuts
    The joy of Moleskine notebooks

    No, despite what you may have heard, Bruce Chatwin never used them but they are still the best notebooks money can buy

September 2010

  • Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin, edited by Nicholas Shakespeare and Elizabeth Chatwin

  • Critical eye
    Critical eye: book reviews roundup

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