Writer and critic. Books on intoxicants, emotions, senses, Adorno, chillies, disorder, love... everything I'll need for the afterlife
Joined August 2011
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"Those looking for poetic diction will be thinly sated... What there is instead is a relentless exercise in auto-therapy, working through, stumbling on the occasional breakthrough."
@StuartWalton1 on Joe Carrick-Varty's BEFORE VIOLENCE (@Carcanet)
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23 Jun 2025
The changing face of alcohol reflected in self-portraits with wine worldoffinewine.com/news-fea…
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"Throughout the book, Manning emphasises the collectivity to which pop has consistently appealed ever since it turned tribal in the early 1950s."
@StuartWalton1 on Toby Manning's MIXING POP AND POLITICS
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13 Jun 2025
Considering pop history from the Marxist viewpoint review31.co.uk/article/view/…
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🍷 Agency author Stuart Walton explores how early cinema 🎬, like the Lumière brothers’ Partie de Cartes, highlights the deep-rooted significance of wine in French culture.
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"Dave Win in his seventies sounds much the same as he did when he was at Bampton School, with the same physical desires, the same aesthetic proclivities..."
@StuartWalton1 on Alan Hollinghust's OUR EVENINGS
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11 Nov 2024
The Hong Kong Review of Books has published a review of my recent book, Sleepless Nights, a critical study of love and romance hkrbooks.com/2024/11/11/slee…
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3 Nov 2024
Not quite in time to give the Nobel committee the nudge I'd hoped, but here anyway is my review of Bei Dao's momentous new poetry volume, Sidetracks hkrbooks.com/2024/10/31/side…
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"An ideology of self-discovery came into being to justify them, as did a litany of cautionary tales."
@StuartWalton1 reviews Erika Dyck's PSYCHEDELICS: A VISUAL ODYSSEY and Aidan Lyon's PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE: REVEALING THE MIND
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11 Jun 2024
My review of Rory Waterman's latest collection from @carcanet hkrbooks.com/2024/06/10/come…
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"What emerges is... a conception of criticism that is strikingly conservative in its social hopes & expectations."
@StuartWalton1 on Michel Chaouli's SOMETHING SPEAKS TO ME: WHERE CRITICISM BEGINS
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7 Mar 2024
In time to come, #WorldBookDayUK, rather than celebrating literary works, will be the occasion for building ritualistic bonfires of them ~ theguardian.com/books/2024/m…
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2 Jan 2024
No more photos of stacks of books, please, or assiduously copied-out quotes. It's a good moment to start thinking for yourself ~
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20 Dec 2023
Banning Christmas in the name of piety. Could it be worth another go? worldoffinewine.com/news-fea…
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Our books of the year - as chosen by @MagnusRena, @pd_christie, @BronwynScottMcC, @StuartWalton1, @anna_aslanyan, @judecook_ & @Hay47John
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