James SnellinCorrespondence, by James SnellHere’s to CrimeActors, like artists, often reveal themselves in the jobs they take for the money — and in the projects that get away from them. Orson…·6 min read·Apr 3, 2022----
James SnellPaper TigersThis essay collection is now available to buy on the Kindle store. A full text version is below. It can also be downloaded as a PDF. Paper…·268 min read·Dec 20, 2021----
James SnellWhite SpaceThis essay collection is now available to buy on the Kindle store. A full text version is below. It can also be downloaded as a PDF. White…·154 min read·Nov 24, 2021----
James SnellOn Being Left a LibraryOf all the features of bereavement, cardboard boxes are the most incongruous and the most inevitable. They help, and sometimes obstruct…·5 min read·Nov 10, 2021----
James SnellinCorrespondence, by James SnellTurkish TroublesWith a seeming spirit of negotiation sweeping the Middle East, it’s easy enough to make rash predictions. Saudi Arabia talking to Iran and…·4 min read·May 13, 2021----
James SnellinCorrespondence, by James SnellGiving ThanksI made a mistake, in the pages of a British magazine last month, by announcing the dawning of an era in which Giuseppe Conte, then the…·5 min read·Feb 26, 2021----
James SnellinCorrespondence, by James SnellThis Is What Living With the Virus Would Have MeantIt’s New Year’s Day and, as is traditional, I am laid low by ill health. I am not, to my knowledge, hungover. But no matter, when the year…·5 min read·Jan 1, 2021--1--1
James SnellinCorrespondence, by James SnellKidnapping and MurderYesterday or thereabouts, deaf to all the clamour this action created, the Iranian state put Ruhollah Zam to death. Zam was a journalist…·6 min read·Dec 14, 2020----
James SnellinCorrespondence, by James SnellTape Up Your WebcamYou may have heard about, or more pertinently you may have seen, a recent scrape involving legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin, scion of…·4 min read·Oct 22, 2020----
James SnellinCorrespondence, by James SnellClass GaspPeregrine Worsthorne died not too long ago, at a great age. A former editor of the Sunday Telegraph and an ensign-bearer in retirement not…·8 min read·Oct 16, 2020----