Nick Cave
Musician and writer; answers readers' questions weekly at The Red Hand Files, and fronts Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination by Mark Vernon
At the moment, I’m halfway through Mark Vernon’s illuminating Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination, and I’ve just finished Darcey Steinke’s This Is the Door: Notes from a Body in Pain
on theredhandfiles.com · 23 Apr 2026 · Report
Do Not Go Gentle by Kathleen Stock
I also recently finished Kathleen Stock’s fierce argument against the UK’s proposed assisted dying bill, Do Not Go Gentle, which I read while taking rich, salutary dives into my dear friend Maria Popova’s luminous Traversal.
on theredhandfiles.com · 23 Apr 2026 · Report
Flash Count Diary by Darcey Steinke
(I loved her book on menopause, Flash Count Diary).
on theredhandfiles.com · 23 Apr 2026 · Report
This Is the Door: Notes from a Body in Pain by Darcey Steinke
I’ve just finished Darcey Steinke’s This Is the Door: Notes from a Body in Pain, a kind of wild theology of the body
on theredhandfiles.com · 23 Apr 2026 · Report
Traversal by Maria Popova
taking rich, salutary dives into my dear friend Maria Popova’s luminous Traversal.
on theredhandfiles.com · 23 Apr 2026 · Report
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