Dishing It Out, Taking It

Writing and Reading

I reach instinctively for the cliche “poacher turned gamekeeper”, but that’s not quite it. Poacher turned pheasant, more like. This is the situation in which my comrade James Marriott (critic and columnist for the Times and here on Substack as https://jmarriott.substack.com/) finds himself, with his first book The New Dark Ages: The End of Reading and t…