Writing

New Statesman
India's Second World War: the history you don't hear about
July 9, 2015

The Guardian
Amid the tears and cheers, a full stop to Britain's colonial experience in Northern Ireland
Simon Winchester was The Guardian's reporter in Derry on Bloody Sunday. Today, he returned to the city to see its victims vindicated at last.
June 15, 2010

Daily Mail
Little Britains: Hundreds of our far-flung island outposts which foreigners keep trying to conquer
May 27, 2010

Lapham's Quarterly
Explosions in the Sky
May 20, 2010

The Guardian
End-of-the-world literature
Following last week's Icelandic 'ashpocalypse', we look at disasters great and small in literature.
Simon Winchester describes the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, and Xan Brooks and Damien
Walter discuss apocalypse fiction.
April 25, 2010

The New York Times
A Tale of Two Volcanoes
April 18, 2010

The Wall Street Journal
Searching for Answers in the Rubble
Jan 16, 2010

The New York Times
Expecting the Big One
Jan. 15, 2010

The Wall Street Journal
The Case Against the New Year
Dec. 26, 2009

The New York Times
A Photo of a Smell and Other Scoops
Dec. 21, 2009

Globe and Mail
Can we save the polar bear?
Dec. 18, 2009