HeyJaredThomas Jones
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- Sep 10, 2026
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- Jul 22, 2026
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Thomas Jones · How to Choose Your Friends: Sciascia’s Sicily (opens the original)
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It’s 6.30 in the morning and a bus full of passengers is idling in a town square. All is quiet in the January dawn except for the rumbling engine and the cry of a street vendor selling panelle (chickpea fritters). As the bus pulls away, the conductor spots a man in a dark suit running across the square and calls for the driver to wait. The man is about to jump onto the running board when two shots are fired. He drops his briefcase and collapses on top of it. The driver stops the bus and goes to
Thomas Jones | Remembering Big Bill (opens the original)
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Occasionally when the phone rang at the London Review offices in the late 1990s it would be the operator asking if we’d accept a reverse charge call from Bill Johnson in Johannesburg. The first couple of times I checked with a colleague if it was OK to take it. After that I’d just say yes, put it on hold and call across the office to Mary-Kay Wilmers: ‘Big Bill’s on the phone.’ I never thought to ask where R.W. Johnson got his nickname; it certainly suited his voice. Once when I had to call him
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