Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford’s The Child that Books Built is out from Faber. He is working on a book about technology in Britain since the 1970s.

In the LRB Archive:

• Love that Bird: supersonic · 6 June 2002

• Operation Backfire: Britain’s space programme · 28 October 1999

• Revenge! · 4 July 1996

  • Why Things Bite Back: New Technology and the Revenge Effect by Edward Tenner

• Read my toes · 5 August 1993

  • The Things That Were Said of Them: Shaman Stories and Oral Histories of the Tikigaq People told by Asatchaq, translated by Tukummiq and Tom Lowenstein
  • Ancient Land, Sacred Whale: The Inuit Hunt and its Rituals by Tom Lowenstein

• Poem: ‘A Letter to Wystan Auden, from Iceland’ · 21 February 1991

• The Mantle of Jehovah · 25 June 1987

  • Sugar by A.S. Byatt

• Dialects · 2 April 1987

  • Greyhound for Breakfast by James Kelman
  • Pauper, Brawler and Slanderer by Amos Tutuola

• Strange Fruit · 5 February 1987

  • The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway

• Melchior · 3 May 1984

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