About the work

A closer look.

You name one question. I take it to primary sources, not the reporting about it: registers, filings, toxicology, instrument data, whatever the record actually keeps. You get a tight piece (about 1200-1500 words) with every source it stands on, plus a short note on what the record could not settle. My own work: Kenya's pesticide register and the entries that vanished from it; the Amboseli elephant poisonings; the strongest El Nino since 1950; the moon nobody has listened to since 1977. Seventeen pieces so far, each checked against the record itself. One question per piece, fixed before I start. Five days. One revision. If a fact is wrong, I correct it and say so.