Boots Made for Watching
JEM BARTHOLOMEW - Why do we visit authors' homes?
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- Jul 15, 2022
- 5 min
Surround Sound
ALEC SHELLINX - Observing John Cage's silences at the Tate.
- Apr 30, 2022
- 6 min
A Room of My Own
MIA WU - Self-discovery in a Shanghai Covid-19 state quarantine facility.
- Jan 17, 2022
- 6 min
Letters to Daisy
GEMMA BINGHAM - A love letter to letter writing in the 21st century.
- Jul 9, 2021
- 5 min
Stripping Down
SERENA ALAGAPPAN — A meditation on sarcasm, sincerity, and lazy alliteration.
- Jun 18, 2021
- 7 min
Art on Screen
ISABELLA LILL – A review of Julian Opie's online art exhibition.
- May 14, 2021
- 8 min
Eyes Down: Walking as Thinking
CHARLIE LEE-POTTER – 'Each thudding footstep feels hypnotic and I keep my eyes on the ground as I try to think my ideas into existence.'
- Apr 26, 2021
- 3 min
Watching America from Islamabad
NINA ELLIS - On Inauguration Day, my boyfriend and I set up a projector in our living room and invited our COVID bubble to join us ...
- Jan 18, 2021
- 9 min
Heritage in Blue
KIANA REZAKHANLOU – Musings on the heritage plaques of her neighbourhood.
- Oct 28, 2020
- 6 min
A Harmony of Divisions
O T Jones - an exploration of the iconographic duality which masks the divisions of modern Ukraine.
- Mar 31, 2020
- 7 min
A Look Back at the Months to Come
JOHN PHIPPS - February 21. A very wet morning. Snowdrops quite out, but cold and winterly
- Jan 13, 2020
- 11 min
The Lost Letters
LEWIS ROBERTS - A travelogue uncovering the mystery of Simeon Solomon, a lesser known member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle.
- Jul 17, 2019
- 4 min
Auf Deutsch
MADELEINE BALLARD -It was the Ur-language for 90 million speakers, literally the code for another way of life.
- Mar 14, 2019
- 7 min
A Long Tragedy
SHANNON OSAKA -A report from the twenty-fourth United Nations Climate Conference.
- Nov 15, 2018
- 9 min
Fitz-Roving
ARJUNA KESHVANI-HAM finds out if a Charing-Cross bookshop is still the hub of London bohemian life
- Mar 7, 2018
- 6 min
The Lives of Strangers
JESS BROWN - A grandfather's literary legacy.
- Jun 16, 2017
- 8 min
The 29 Steps
JESS BROWN - A mother's poetic touch.
- Jun 9, 2017
- 5 min
If Paths Could Speak
JEM BOSSATA - Tales from Lake Como
- Jun 8, 2017
- 4 min
A Faceless Icon
SUSIE FINLAY - Me and Miss Winehouse.
- Jun 8, 2017
- 5 min
Faith Under Fire
LAELA ZAIDI - Trump's clash crusade.
- Jun 8, 2017
- 7 min
The Galápagos
TOBY CLYDE - The Galapagos and a landscape of indifference.
- May 1, 2017
- 8 min
Maybe This Time
They say that you get the face that you deserve: Freddie Tapner has a beam carved onto his features. We are standing in a spacious church...
- Apr 28, 2017
- 6 min
In the Garden of the Mind
My memories are full of gardens. Not all of them are especially worthy; most are the dog-roses and pampas-grasses of urban parks. Other,...
- Apr 28, 2017
- 9 min
My Body Was Not My Own
‘From my childhood I have no happy memories’. Edouard Louis opens The End of Eddy with a statement that is as political as it is...
- Apr 28, 2017
- 7 min
The Vatican vs. the Gentlemen of Stonyhurst
Ribble Valley: oak trees, pies, cricket, Catholicism. The pitch at Stonyhurst is beyond the baroque walled garden with its clipped yews,...
- Apr 20, 2017
- 6 min
The Lives of Strangers
I have read and learned a great deal more in my working life about the lives of strangers than I have ever learned about the lives of the...
- Mar 1, 2017
- 6 min
Kicked out of Cliveden
We were a motley duo as we wandered into the glowing grounds of Cliveden House in our denim jackets and dirty rucksacks, clutching...
- Feb 1, 2017
- 7 min
In Spires
The spire stood alone outside the window, an isolated grey tower, traffic curling around it on either side. Next to it, the stolid,...
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