Editor, typographer. Wants UK constitutional remake. Supports underdogs. ‘Books that lie open’: https://robinkinross.substack.com/profile/postshttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mwloiszhxk2xCan remember when and where I heard the news of Miles's death – meeting/interviewing Petr van Blokland in Delft. The talk about digital typography stopped ... [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Sep 2026 15:56 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwloiszhxk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mwayd7r4cc2qAvoid the queues, see the tapestry in Reading24 Sep 2026 09:53 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwayd7r4cc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mvxq5dxse22jan oversized piece of wedding-cake neo-neo-classicism, with snipers and drones nesting on its top20 Sep 2026 17:33 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxq5dxse22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mvphviwz322oHow is that both versobooks.bsky.social and penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social are publishing Tom Overton's John Berger biography? https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3296-john-berger?_pos=1&_sid=4abdaada0&_ss=r https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/295293/john-berger-by-overton-tom/9780241262528 [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Sep 2026 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvphviwz322ohttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mvhiebnhvc2oOn some books published by TLB: Peter Handke | Douglas Oliver & J.H. Prynne | John Wilkinson https://robinkinross.substack.com/p/four-books-from-the-last-books14 Sep 2026 06:31 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvhiebnhvc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mur2zyazr22iRosencrantz and Guildenstern05 Sep 2026 08:34 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mur2zyazr22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mur2zyazr22iRosencrantz and Guildenstern05 Sep 2026 08:34 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mur2zyazr22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mtohrdxn4k2cPost a picture that should be an ECM album cover. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2026 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtohrdxn4k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mtlksa6p7224Yes – I admit – rain. Drizzle, she said more precisely. Yes, actually drizzle. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlksa6p7224https://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mtjnn3jddk2w_'Take care of things', Edward said_ capitalization of initial word only – would have taken care of this [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Aug 2026 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjnn3jddk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mtbzokxclk25In this connection I keep on hearing in my head the sane, measured, humane, critical voice of Stuart Hall [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Aug 2026 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbzokxclk25https://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mt7lz4cg7k2oYour music tastes via three artists (no genres), Dutch band leaders only: 1. Gustav Leonhardt (1928–2012) 2. Misha Mengelberg (1935–2017) 3. Willem Breuker (1944–2010)16 Aug 2026 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt7lz4cg7k2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3msy6uli2os2tYes, this is old-fashioned Oxford University Press English – but the rules are a little complex, for example 'improvisation' is spelled like that, for etymological reasons [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Aug 2026 17:41 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msy6uli2os2thttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mri7qud7s22eHatherley's balanced and perceptive assessment of the later John Berger, marred by "a certain folksy soulfulness". Good for him for saying this out loud, and good for NLR for publishing it. https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/hope-and-defeat25 Jul 2026 15:49 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mri7qud7s22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mqtdagaxwc26I felt that my eyes were already giving off a more steady look and stuck my hands into my trouser pockets with an ease that half an hour before was completely unknown to me. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2026 08:25 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqtdagaxwc26https://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mqiygjjkqs2cDiscussing these books by Irénée Scalbert https://robinkinross.substack.com/p/three-books-by-irenee-scalbert13 Jul 2026 05:45 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqiygjjkqs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mnyx6skgmk2xDestination stones from the old Blackfriars station in London, rescued and reconfigured: when read across the rows – a surreal poem when read down the columns, its beautiful but more mundane11 Jun 2026 09:50 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnyx6skgmk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mntlbk5wbc2ga pivotal book that changed the way many of us think about the UK – and a difficult one, partly because of its nature as a collection of discrete essays [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Jun 2026 06:33 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mntlbk5wbc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mnae3pdcm22hthe truth about Miles01 Jun 2026 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnae3pdcm22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mmrfzyrm6c2wThinking of Rollins, Davis, and all the others of their generation, I remember Adam Shatz writing recently in the LRB: "Yet, paradoxically, it was jazz in particular, and Black music more generally, that prevented me, as it still does, from giving up on America." https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/adam-shatz/another-country26 May 2026 16:29 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmrfzyrm6c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mmrek5wr322wAn early example of unjustified setting [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 May 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmrek5wr322whttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mmgmbeg74224and Sheila Jordan too [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 May 2026 09:21 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmgmbeg74224https://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mmb5fkgc2c2tOn two editions of Arundhati Roy’s latest book: one made in India, one made in the UK https://robinkinross.substack.com/p/arundhati-roys-new-book-in-two-editions20 May 2026 05:12 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmb5fkgc2c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mllq3kgrgs2uMemories of typography at Reading University, 1970s https://hyphenpress.co.uk/typography_reading_in_the_1970s/11 May 2026 16:48 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllq3kgrgs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mkzl4ja7ek2aA space had formed around Boorman, as around a madman. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2026 11:31 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzl4ja7ek2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mksdgwsves27On Josephine Rombouts's 'Cliffrock Castle' https://robinkinross.substack.com/p/cliffrock-castle01 May 2026 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksdgwsves27https://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mksddgxlc227On Susan Owens's 'Constable's year' https://robinkinross.substack.com/p/constables-year @thamesandhudson.bsky.social01 May 2026 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksddgxlc227https://bsky.app/profile/kinross.bsky.social/post/3mjenzexbu225Strange that just now there was peace and then suddenly it's war. The one followed the other as simply as Easter after Lent. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Apr 2026 10:32 +0000at://did:plc:hc7jirpvs2eqfehvxkmlfup5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjenzexbu225