Article in World of Interiors

Posted On July 7, 2026 By jadeangelesfitton In Articles, Culture, Literature, Nature, Travel / No Comments

There has been woefully little time for writing articles the past year or so and I’m utterly delighted to be stepping back into the fray through the hallowed halls of world of interiors ‘Object Lesson’. We’re anticipating my season of all things meteoric with what are described as ‘the shooting stars’ of Vita Sackville-West’s garden at Sissinghurst, her irises.

This is a meditation one species in particular, the Three Oaks iris, a bright star of a plant, a total trip, and nigh-on impossible to get one’s hands on in the U.K. If you’re eager to see them, many of the irises return for a second bloom in September, which just happens to be when my next book, When The Sky Falls: A Human History of Shooting Stars, is published…

You can buy a copy of August’s World of Interiors here.

Contritbuting to ‘The Pub’

Posted On October 9, 2025 By jadeangelesfitton In Articles, Books, Culture, Literature /

One of my favourite publications, The Fence, have a new, beautiful book out called The Pub, published by Penguin/Ebury Press: featuring the best, and the blurst, of British pubs. I was delighted to be asked to contribute, and wrote about one of my favourite pubs down in Devon, that I’ve been going to my whole life (mentioned in Hermit – it was the pub with all the mummers).

The pub is available here.

Feature For Literary Review

Posted On April 13, 2021 By jadeangelesfitton In Articles, Literature /

Seen a lot of manifestos being published recently? Manifestos are in the zeitgeist again, but his time it’s different. For Literary Review I wrote about what commercialisation means for manifestos and their movements. How radical can something mass market be? Read online here.

Or in print here:

Time Literary Supplement TLS Guestbook review Leanne Shapton

Guestbook Review in TLS

Posted On June 23, 2019 By jadeangelesfitton In Articles, Literature /

I’ve got a little review in the latest TLS of artist and writer Leanne Shapton’s Guestbook — a dead spooky collection of ghost stories for the 21st Century. Check it out …

Italo Calvino If on a winter's night a traveler

If On A Winter’s Night A Computer ..

Posted On February 22, 2019 By jadeangelesfitton In Articles, Literature /

I wrote a piece for The Millions about how, in 1979, Italo Calvino predicted the AI author in one of his best-loved novels, and what the reality of that prediction now means for us writers, poets, journalists and translators, Can a machine ever compete in metaphysical matters? What happens to an author’s copyright when a machine learning algorithm “learns” from an author’s work? And what happens when something learns from only “good” works. Click here to read.