Sad to learn that Daniel Dennett has gone. I had the privilege of interviewing him about theory of mind, so reposting that here spectator.co.uk/article/books-…

This fall, I got an e-mail from a guy named JM Simpson who'd read things I'd written about homelessness. He mentioned he was a photojournalist in Olympia and that he'd been photographing the unhoused population there. He wanted to share some work with me . . . (1)

Sam Leith 🐝

Incredibly grateful to win The Press Awards Young Journalist of the Year 🏆 for my reporting on the war in Ukraine.

First prize I’ve won since I got the Good Friend award in 4th grade. That’s still a life peak, but this is pretty nice too! Genuinely ASTONISHED

“As a contribution to natural history, the work is negligible.”

The TLS on Wind In The Willows, in what Sam Leith 🐝 justly describes as “one of the great point-missing reviews of all time.”

Coo. This has the potential to be the most excellently inflammatory Times op-ed of all time. Someone commission this man.

letter to the Times from a former Conservative MP

Happy Birthday to the wonderful Joan Bakewell. A human of the highest calibre.

On Liz Truss, and her book, and her lonely war against a Deep State that for some reason isn't Deep enough to buy furniture or get rid of fleas. thetimes.co.uk/article/ac0f61…

I spoke to Sam Leith 🐝 about Everything Must Go for the Spectator Book Club. A nice, long, thoughtful interview.
spectator.co.uk/podcast/dorian…

Percival Everett admiring your work, ⁦Jamie Forrest⁩ 🧡

Such a treat to listen in on the conversation between Percival Everett and ⁦Sam Leith 🐝⁩ for ⁦The Spectator⁩ Books pod. Be sure to keep an eye (& ear) out for it. #JAMES

Thanks ⁦Oneworld Publications⁩ - the forthcoming compendium/analysis of children’s literature from ⁦Sam Leith 🐝⁩ looks fascinating. Aren’t we all somehow, somewhere, still in that haunted wood? Out 5 Sept

On fifty years of Stephen King thetimes.co.uk/article/horny-…

Rereading this 2017 article by Society of Indexers president Sam Leith 🐝 this #IndexDay . 'Indexes are challenging to produce; they are revelatory of a book's nature; and the best ones are works of art.' theguardian.com/books/2017/mar…

Very very sad to see Daniel Kahneman has gone. I spoke both to him and about him for our Book Club podcast. Just retweeted the conversation with him, and here's Michael Lewis telling the poignant story of his partnership with Amos Tversky spectator.co.uk/article/books-…

Daniel Kahneman, the author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, has died aged 90.

👇 He spoke to Sam Leith on The Spectator’s books podcast in 2022.

spectator.co.uk/podcast/daniel…

I have two standing tickets to Mary Chain at Roundhouse, Camden, I can’t now use for this Friday. Anyone want them for face price ono?

Some news! 📣📣📣 I have been working on a new book for 4 years, and can now tell you about it.

A fantasy version of Transylvania. A kingdom of vampirs. An orphaned werwolf on a deadly quest.

Get ready, this September, to hunt for the