Byron Crawford in The Guardian Guide

My piece on supreme rap blogger Byron Crawford ran in this week's Guardian Guide. You can read it here or click on the PDF above.

Pete Doherty on Guardian music

My piece on MTV's Pete Doherty documentary is on the Guardian music site. Check the comments for the dispiriting spectacle of a bunch of Libertines fans weighing in with comments three times longer than the original piece. You can read the article here.

Charles Darwin in The Guardian

What with it's 150th anniversary, I took the opportunity to finally crack open Origin of The Species, read it, and assess how well it works as a piece of literature for The Guardian. You can read about it here.