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Robin Kinross

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Editor, typographer. Wants UK constitutional remake. Supports underdogs. ‘Books that lie open’: robinkinross.substack.com/profile/p…

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LettError Type @letterror.bsky.social · 19h
On process, criteria and generative AI letterror.com/ai
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On generative AI at LettError.com
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can remember when and where I heard the news of Miles's death – meeting/interviewing Petr van Blokland in Delft. The talk about digital typography stopped ...
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Avoid the queues, see the tapestry in Reading
section of the Bayeux tapestry in the nineteenth-century English copy held at Reading, with embroiderer's signature at the bottomthe copy of the Bayeux tapestry on the first floor of the Reading town museum (Reading, UK)
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
an oversized piece of wedding-cake neo-neo-classicism, with snipers and drones nesting on its top
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How is that both versobooks.bsky.social and penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social are publishing Tom Overton's John Berger biography? www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... www.penguin.co.uk/books/295293...
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John Berger
Tom Overton got to know John Berger around 2010, after he gave his archive to the British Library: a kind of homecoming to his birthplace, after a life lived mostly in self-imposed exile in Switzerlan...
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
On some books published by TLB: Peter Handke | Douglas Oliver & J.H. Prynne | John Wilkinson robinkinross.substack.com/p/four-books...
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Four books from The Last Books
works by Peter Handke | Douglas Oliver and J.H. Prynne | John Wilkinson
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
A photo that shows, left to right: the US property-developer diplomats Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
A photo that shows, left to right: the US property-developer diplomats Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Post a picture that should be an ECM album cover.
the moon over north London
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yes – I admit – rain. Drizzle, she said more precisely. Yes, actually drizzle.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
_'Take care of things', Edward said_ capitalization of initial word only – would have taken care of this
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In this connection I keep on hearing in my head the sane, measured, humane, critical voice of Stuart Hall
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Your music tastes via three artists (no genres), Dutch band leaders only: 1. Gustav Leonhardt (1928–2012) 2. Misha Mengelberg (1935–2017) 3. Willem Breuker (1944–2010)
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yes, this is old-fashioned Oxford University Press English – but the rules are a little complex, for example 'improvisation' is spelled like that, for etymological reasons
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Hatherley's balanced and perceptive assessment of the later John Berger, marred by "a certain folksy soulfulness". Good for him for saying this out loud, and good for NLR for publishing it. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Owen Hatherley, Hope and Defeat — Sidecar
On late Berger.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I felt that my eyes were already giving off a more steady look and stuck my hands into my trouser pockets with an ease that half an hour before was completely unknown to me.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Discussing these books by Irénée Scalbert robinkinross.substack.com/p/three-book...
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Three books by Irénée Scalbert
Never modern (2013) has two authors, Irénée Scalbert and 6a architects. It is an essay by the first about the work of the second. Scalbert, French by birth, has for many years lived in London, where h...
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Destination stones from the old Blackfriars station in London, rescued and reconfigured: when read across the rows – a surreal poem when read down the columns, its beautiful but more mundane
Destination stones from the old Blackfriars station in London, now assembled in a block on a wall of the new Blackfriars station
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
a pivotal book that changed the way many of us think about the UK – and a difficult one, partly because of its nature as a collection of discrete essays
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
the truth about Miles
letter from Richard Carter about Miles Davis's 'superior musical intelligence', published in the Guardian, 1 June 2026
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Thinking of Rollins, Davis, and all the others of their generation, I remember Adam Shatz writing recently in the LRB: "Yet, paradoxically, it was jazz in particular, and Black music more generally, that prevented me, as it still does, from giving up on America." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
An early example of unjustified setting
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
and Sheila Jordan too
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Max Roach Gustav Leonhardt Anthony Braxton András Schiff Lee Konitz Frans Bruggen Betty Carter Christian Zacharias Marilyn Crispell Christoph Prégardien
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
On two editions of Arundhati Roy’s latest book: one made in India, one made in the UK robinkinross.substack.com/p/arundhati-...
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Arundhati Roy’s new book in two editions
Penguin Random House India and Penguin Random House UK
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Memories of typography at Reading University, 1970s hyphenpress.co.uk/typography_r...
Students and staff of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, summer 1975
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A space had formed around Boorman, as around a madman.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
On Josephine Rombouts's 'Cliffrock Castle' robinkinross.substack.com/p/cliffrock-...
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Cliffrock Castle
working at a castle in Scotland
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
On Susan Owens's 'Constable's year' robinkinross.substack.com/p/constables... @thamesandhudson.bsky.social
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Constable’s year
an artist in changing seasons
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Strange that just now there was peace and then suddenly it's war. The one followed the other as simply as Easter after Lent.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
🇫🇷 Sen. Claude Malhuret: "I compared the Trump presidency to Nero's court. I was wrong. It's a court of miracles. An anti-vax ex heroin addict as Health Sec; a climate skeptic as Econ Sec; an alcoholic TV host as Def Sec; an ex Qatari agent as Attorney Gen; a Putin groupie as Homeland Security Sec."
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
these hollow men and their adverbs
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New on Substack: Two books by John Morgan robinkinross.substack.com/p/two-books-...
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Two books by John Morgan
John died last year, very prematurely, with a brain tumor.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Two books from Museums etc. robinkinross.substack.com/p/two-books-...
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Two books from Museums etc.
Photography is the main subject of the books from Museums etc., a new imprint that publishes from Edinburgh.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Something about Otabind substack.com/@robinkinros...
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Otabind
an explanation and some history
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Europe depends on US companies to handle digital payments, putting our money at risk. A strong Digital Euro would give everyone safe, independent access to money. But banks and Big Tech want to kill the proposal. Sign the petition now: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-02...
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Save the Digital Euro
Europe depends on US companies to handle digital payments, putting our money at risk. A strong Digital Euro would give everyone safe, independent access to money. But banks and Big Tech want to kill t...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Wordle today (UK English)
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
On two archive books robinkinross.substack.com/p/two-archiv...
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Two archive books
Themerson archive | Nick Wadley: archive
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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Still a few tickets left for his 4 hour epic ‘For Philip Guston’ in London this Sunday. I’ll be on my way from Scotland… And the great Sheffield label www.anothertimbre.com are making his music available and accessible like it’s never been. Happy 100th Morty www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...
A black-and-white photograph of the composer Morton Feldman sitting smoking in a brasserie in Paris reading France Soir newspaper with the headline Désolation au Quartier Latin describing assaults by the police on those behind the barricades along with news of 400 arrests.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
"Waiter," he asked suddenly, "do you have real Guinness?" "Sure", came the quiet answer. "Bottled in Dublin? You're not joking?"
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
www.theferret.scot/video-bagpip...
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Claim that video shows bagpiper playing over call to prayer in Scotland is False
A video showing a man playing bagpipes during a Muslim call to prayer was widely shared on social media this week, after being boosted by accounts critical of Islam.  The short clip was posted on X n...
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Remembering James Mosley hyphenpress.co.uk/2026/01/07/r...
The cover of the Italian edition (2001) of some of James Mosley's essays: Radici della scrittura moderna.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Remembering James Mosley hyphenpress.co.uk/2026/01/07/r...
The cover of the Italian edition (2001) of some of James Mosley's essays: Radici della scrittura moderna.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
New post on 'Books that lie open' robinkinross.substack.com/p/reading-wi...
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Reading with Jean-Luc Godard
Godard’s use of books, of quoted text, of written and typographic words on signs, of titles and inter-titles, presents us with quite an extreme case.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
New on my Substack: robinkinross.substack.com/p/blank-page...
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Blank pages count
On Helen DeWitt’s ‘The English understand wool’
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
A note on the physical production of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social robinkinross.substack.com/p/fitzcarral...
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Fitzcarraldo Editions
The British publisher Fitzcarraldo issued its first books in 2014.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Five books from Rab-Rab Press. New on my Substack: robinkinross.substack.com/profile/posts
Cover of the book 'Free jazz communism', representing the latest post on my Substack pages: 'Books that lie open'.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Yes. Constitutions that protect individual rights can be trampled over (as now in the USA). But a constitution that entrenches human rights, and is then overridden, and is then challenged in the courts, is better than the UK's sovereignty of 10 Downing Street.
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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