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A People Apart
In the winter of 2018, a 26 year-old American missionary named John Chau travelled to North Sentinel island to preach the word of God. It...
May 1, 20199 min read
Death from Above
ARJUNA KESHVANI-HAM - Artistic approaches to the age of drone warfare.
May 1, 201910 min read
Out of the Past
The camps. It is always the camps we return to. Yet we never can see them, not really. There is a deep craving to see images of Auschwitz...
Apr 30, 201910 min read
FITZ-ROVING
A Charing Cross bookshop acted as the hub for London’s emerging 60’s Beat scene. Speaking to poet Michael Horovitz, our writer wonders...
Apr 25, 201910 min read
Saint Neil
GRACE MORGAN - A visual history of faith.
Apr 19, 20198 min read
Ways of Seeing
In 1922, Wallace Stevens sent a group of six poems to the editor of The Dial, an influential outlet for American modernist literature....
Apr 18, 201910 min read
The Big-Tech Backlash
#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media Cass Sunstein, Princeton University Press, 2018 The Attention Merchants: The Epic...
Apr 17, 201913 min read
To Shoot at Mountains
Pachinko Min Jin Lee, Apollo, 2017 The climactic scene of Kim Tal-su’s 1952 novel 富士の見える村で Fuji no mieru mura de (In the Shadow of Mt....
Apr 17, 201913 min read
Exiled in the Algorithm
Netflix knows you. It knows what you’re watching, when you’re watching, and how much. It knows what you want and what you don’t want. You...
Apr 17, 201913 min read
What is his Hausname?
From the fora to the forests. Out from gens Romulum into the Weal-kin dinas-man gone aethwlad cives gone wold-men …from Lindum to London...
Apr 17, 20198 min read
The Girl who Cried Rabbits
On 10 October 1726, an intriguing story appeared in the weekly press. ‘From Guildford,’ wrote the British Gazetteer, comes a strange, but...
Apr 17, 20198 min read
Weighed Inside Her Body
Normal People Sally Rooney, Faber & Faber, 2018 While reading Conversations with Friends and Normal People, when washing up after dinner...
Apr 17, 20198 min read
United, Unrequited
In the BBC documentary Tell Me the Truth About Love, WH Auden takes a trip to Venice with his great love Chester Kallman. As they sit...
Apr 17, 201910 min read
The Distant Flood
Olivia Laing’s Crudo is about the intensity, the anxiety and the challenges of identifying yourself when you have all of global politics...
Apr 16, 20197 min read
THE LURE OF MIMCRY
Part of the motivation for reading literary fiction is the hunt for new uses of language. The search for exciting and innovative plots,...
Apr 16, 20197 min read
Entering the Fray
GRACE CRABTREE - The quiet radicalism of weaving.
Apr 12, 201910 min read
Smoke and Mirrors
JACK CHAUNCY - The Ashmolean hosts the American controversialist in a new exhibition.
Mar 22, 20197 min read
My Mouchette
GEORGE WILSON - Internet encounters with a thirteen-year-old girl.
Mar 16, 20197 min read
What Is to Be Done?
JOHN PHIPPS - On Jonathan Franzen and the end of the world.
Mar 15, 201916 min read
Generation Crash
JADE SPENCER - Money makes the world go wrong.
Mar 14, 20198 min read
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