Matthew Adams
Matthew Adams is a freelance writer. Publications he has contributed to include the Independent, the Guardian, the Spectator, Literary Review and the Times Literary Supplement.
Articles by Matthew Adams
What is our fascination with severed heads?
A new book explores the magnetism that severed heads hold in Western culture.
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South London spiritual
Though he is an atheist, Matthew Adams finds peace and solace in the Victorian churches of the South London suburb of Brockley. Photographs by Melissa Harrison
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A reasonable life
Matthew Adams gets inside the mind of the President of the Rationalist Association, Sir Jonathan Miller
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Ballads of unsuccess
A new collection confirms James Fenton as one of our very best poets. Matthew Adams meets him
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Our man in Marseille
In his uncategorisable writing and brilliant television essays Jonathan Meades is forever peering into the nooks and crannies of our absurd age. Matthew Adams runs him to ground in his modernist hideaway to poke into his private places
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The mind ironic
Matthew Adams remembers winning a £10 bet, and gaining a lifetime's inspiration from Christopher Hitchens
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A tale of two Dickens
The great Christian chronicler of Victorian destitution was also a ‘wicked man’. Matthews Adams talks to biographer Claire Tomalin about the conflicted life that fed his art
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Human folly
Half a millennium ago a book by a Catholic theologian unwittingly ignited a secular revolution. Matthew Adams salutes Erasmus
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Slayer of religion
For critic James Wood the novel offers an antidote to unforgiving certainties, sacred and profane. Matthew Adams meets him
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The man who would be God: an interview with AC Grayling
Anthony Grayling's latest book is his most daring. He has rewritten the Bible, leaving out God. Matthew Adams meets him
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Space for laughs
As comedian Helen Keen’s Radio 4 series on the history of rocket science begins, she tells Matthew Adams why it’s a subject with room for the serious and the absurd
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The Blair-Hitch project
Hitchens debating religion with Blair in Toronto was a heavyweight contest worth staying up for. Matthew Adams keeps the scores
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Sins of the Father
Human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson tells Matthew Adams why the Pope must take responsibility for the crisis in his Church
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