I first came across the work of GMB Akash, a Bangladeshi documentary photographer, while looking for pictures to go with an article about a train journey. He hadn’t photographed the train I was interested in, but he had taken an award-winning portfolio of pictures that included the wonderfully impressionistic image above, a copy of which [...]

Shortly after reading Alex Clark’s excellent piece in The Guardian yesterday on the lost art of editing, I reopened a much-praised novel I’ve been reading. A passage began “His rise through this world had been meteoric”. Surely the editor should have spotted that thumping cliche . . .

This week’s Time Out — the print version — has a review of Bon Voyage!. It starts scarily, with an admission from the writer that one piece in the book’s 340 pages lulled her to sleep — but in a good way.  It ends like this: A brilliant book, ideal for indulging in while out [...]