Joad Raymond @joadrwren.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I blogged. Sort of. It’s been a while. I may try to get in a groove. joadrwren.com/2026/09/13/t...joadrwren.comTalking up UtopiaI’ve done a couple of interviews recently, a new thing for me. There was a long and recently interesting one with Isabelle Castro for her substack, Utopia in Beta. I’ll write a little m… 000
Joad Raymond @joadrwren.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Sitting on the beach drawing. Very very tonally subdued aquarelle pencils. 001
Joad Raymond @joadrwren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I’m speaking in Bath on Monday, if you happen to be near and fancy a couple of hours of utopia. www.brlsi.org/whatson/the-...brlsi.orgThe uses of Utopia, from Plato to the present – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific InstitutionDiscussing Utopia as both a literary genre and a way of thinking 011
Joad Raymond @joadrwren.bsky.social · 05/07/2026More outdoor painting. It’s nice how passing strangers stop to say positive things. 010
Joad Raymond @joadrwren.bsky.social · 02/07/2026"Britain’s current problem is one that the heroes of Joad Raymond Wren’s scintillating book never had: a complete want of thinking outside the box." A review in the Spectator: spectator.com/article/are-...spectator.comAre good people made by good surroundings, or the other way round?How can Britain cut its spiralling benefits budget and the number of alienated youths spending taxpayer-generated monies on frivolous consumer goods, facing off against the police and making life unpl... 020
Joad Raymond @joadrwren.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Publication day! My The Uses of Utopia: Travels to the Limits of Thought, with @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social www.penguin.co.uk/books/453830...penguin.co.ukThe Uses of UtopiaUtopia is not somewhere you can go. But neither is it an idle fantasy. It runs through history and literature from Plato to Thomas More, Margaret Cavendish to Ursula Le Guin. Utopia, this book shows, ... 031
