16 May 2022
I have just been to the Bath festival of books to talk with my esteemed colleague John Crace about his book A Farewell to Calm. It has been two years, more or less, without these events - two years when we had to pretend the experience was the same as we watched on a tiny screen, only half listening, only for it all to come rushing back: the steamy crowd (it had been raining), the thrill of the spoken word.