My version of the Universal Turing Machine is only the beginning. The idea is that writers everywhere can use the thousand-words-a-year format to add their own memoir to an ever-growing chessboard, which will eventually become a neural network of memories …
Georges, Georges Perec, is that you?
No.
Come on, Georges, this is the first time I’ve summoned spirits from the dead. Would you consider giving me an interview?
No.
Georges, I have a Ouija board here on a small …
The first phase of the Universal Turing Machine is now available to read free online.
‘Utterly humane and utterly brilliant,’ Lily Dunn, author of Into Being; The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform. ‘There are …
‘Utterly humane and utterly brilliant, outwitting computer technology by remaining one step ahead, always, in what can be read and in what order. There are many clever people out there, doing clever things, but it takes great skill to …
For as long as boarding school survivors govern Britain, they will inflict their own pain on the nation.
New Statesman, 12 March 2024
Charles Spencer has a memoir out, and famously, when given a pulpit, Charles Spencer tells it like …
Becoming Prime Minister wasn’t the first significant position Sunak was handed – Winchester College taught him a thing or two about prestige without power, writes Richard Beard
Byline Times, March 2024
Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak was identified by the Conservative …
Richard Beard savours every word
The Nightwatchman, autumn 2023
In 2003, a short book, a very short book, was published by Evergreen Press entitled The Catch. The book’s only reviewer Stephen Moss, in Bodyline Books: Catalogue of Cricket Literature, says …
A prehistoric literary hoax brought to light
Times Literary Supplement, March 2023
Can there ever be enough poets? Evidently not, because more get invented all the time. In the eighteenth century alone, teenager Thomas Chatterton “discovered” the work of the …
By speaking out in his autobiography, Spare, Harry challenges a repressed institution that traduced his grief and demanded his mute compliance.
New Statesman, January 2023
In extracts leaked from his autobiography, Spare, Prince Harry reminds his readers that when his …
Simon Kuper’s book Chums tells the story of how one university taught the core of today’s Brexit government how to achieve power – but not how to use it.
New Statesman, April 2022
Welcome to the “chumocracy”, in England a …
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