William Atkins
William Atkins’s The Immeasurable World won the 2019 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award. His latest book is Exiles: Three Island Journeys. He is working on a book about Sizewell and its nuclear power stations.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 157
Introduction: On Staying at Home
William Atkins
‘If the following pieces can be said to have an overriding characteristic, it is that they take seriously the experience of being a stranger.’
Guest editor William Atkins introduces the issue.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 138
Between Great Fires
William Atkins
‘This is the perennial anxiety – that at any moment, day or night, you might be snatched and shackled and tried and sent back.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 138
Goat-Herd Errant: Jim Corbett and the American borderlands
William Atkins
‘The book is a manifesto for the revival of pastoral nomadism – leading goats from pasture to pasture and surviving on their milk and wild plants.’ William Atkins on Jim Corbett’s Goatwalking.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 149
On the Island of the Black River
William Atkins
William Atkins visits the remote island of Sakhalin, following in the footsteps of Anton Chekhov.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 159
On Sizewell C
William Atkins
‘Where do we go, as a country, for power?’
William Atkins on the proposed nuclear power station in Suffolk.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Interview
Colm Tóibín & William Atkins
‘I think he saw the German spirit as one in which suffering or an appreciation of suffering was essential.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
William Atkins In Conversation
William Atkins & Luke Neima
William Atkins in conversation about his new book, The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places.
