AT first I thought this comment on Daily Ireland’s fonts was going to be a spoof, but no… apparently there really is a Canadian company that designs typefaces called Shinntype. The company’s site tells us that Daily Ireland is the first newspaper to use the new ‘Nicholas’ fonts. “Nicholas will be released later this year” it adds without irony. You couldn’t make it up…
This reads as if a mad picaresque tale. Myers as first a reporter for RTÉ and then as a freelance journalist with no real experience, finds himself wandering into savagery as he hastens north as the Troubles explode. A soldier dies next to him; he witnesses an IRA ambush; he sees children shot to death [...] read our review »
Writer Christopher Hitchens has died aged 62. He was as contrary as he was brilliant. Here is a brief In Memoriam from Vanity Fair (his outlet of choice since 1992) and, here, a longer tribute from his friend Christopher Buckley Stanley in The New Yorker. Better, perhaps, though to post one of Hitchens’ own writings in [...] read our review »