John Ryle | In the City of Words

Forthcoming 2026

Before City of Words became a publishing house it was a newspaper column, written by John Ryle, published in the Guardian from 1995 to 1999. In the City of Words collects a hundred and one of these weekly columns, covering information technology, literature, the arts, anthropology, arms control, sexual politics and natural history, with reporting from South Sudan, Brazil, Bhutan, Cuba, the UK and points south.