Nocturnal wanderings inspire both the escape from and the search for the self, revealing the best and worst of humanity, and promoting creativity
Nightwalking in London
Author Archives: Matthew Beaumont
Matthew Beaumont on London: ‘Nothing fits in this city. Either the locks are too large or the key is too small’
How we feel we fit into our cities is changing with the relentless march of development
Unreal Futures: Jules Verne’s Paris in the Twentieth Century
Although unpublished and dating from 1863, this dystopian fiction’s scepticism about capitalism and critique of utilitarian culture still appear pertinent today
