Articles Written By Jonathan Bell
TMN Contributing Writer Jonathan Bell lives in South London. He co-edits Things Magazine and likes to write about architecture.
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The Non-Expert
The Coast Is Sheer
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain how to build a roller coaster in terms a young engineering student may not expect.
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Letters From London
The Stratus Sphere
For a city that’s constantly grey, why is London so obsessed with the weather? Our man in Britannia takes a look at the capital’s skies, which are more colorful than you might think.
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Letters From London
A Mystery of Violence
Terrorism fills the British papers this week, but over the winter a different sort of violence kept London on its toes. Our correspondent reports on the personal impact of a season of murders.
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Letters From London
Live at the Isle of Wight
Home to past rock festivals, model villages, and other dinosaurs, this wedge in the English Channel makes for an inviting family vacation.
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A Walk in the Park
London
When you’re a twenty-something in love with the urban life, parks can seem invisible. But, as they say, having a kid changes everything.
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Letters From London
London Sprawling
The British capital is never empty, and only major television events can clear the streets. So why do movies and science fiction teem with vacant blocks? Does urbanism have room for emptiness anymore?
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Letters From London
Days of Grind and Poses
The modern city anticipates our moods—start off jolly and you’ll find a dozen happy sights. Start the day day rotten, though, and everything’s squalid. How can you maintain sanity when the city changes as often as you do?
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Letters From London
Vexed in the City
London is constantly changing—surviving bombs, rebuilding flats—so what’s there to hold onto when even the subway map’s an abstraction? Our longtime Londoner may notice only what’s missing, but his son sees the city for the very first time.
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Books
My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism
Insights into the British media don't come more highly praised than Andrew Marr's My Trade, freshly issued in paperback. Marr, formerly the BBC's chief political correspondent, bares the secrets of...
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Magazines
Carl’s Cars
Carl's Cars is a "magazine about people," but hey, aren't they all? What makes this Norwegian publication different is hard to nail down. Sure, there's a fashionable streak of one-upmanship...
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Destinations
Alison Lapper Pregnant
Completed in 1841, Trafalgar Square's so-called fourth plinth immediately suffered a funding crisis and has been statue-less ever since. In 1999, it became a showcase for new sculpture, and now it's coming...
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Magazines
Smoke, A London Peculiar
Contemporary writing about London has been slightly cursed by the Iain Sinclair factor, with the author's dense but overbearing style encouraging legions of imitators to laboriously scrape away the modern...