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Bomb Walk
Tony Rickaby combines historical events, personal memories and fiction as he examines London’s explosive past. Continue Reading Bomb Walk
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White Girl Speaking Arabic
Andrea Calabretta gets lost in the linguistic maze of Tunisia. Continue Reading White Girl Speaking Arabic
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Alone in Paris
“You are so close you have to make it and you hope your watch is a few minutes fast. But as you round the bend of another museum you look ...
Burning Mountain Temple
“The fifth or sixth time I sprawl in the dirt the panic alarms are flashing extra bright. When my stomach stops looking for something to throw up I can raise ...
The Barbarossa Express
“I couldn’t move home, but maybe I could repay some of their kindness. I knew their stories of Christmas gifts that never arrived, and I knew their current interests. I ...
Family: Memorial
“I place the incense sticks on the earth in front of each trunk. Normally, I’d count to make sure that no tree gets any more or less. But ...
The Plight of the Romany Gypsies
Patricia Duffaud finds that discrimination and racism are still common in the treatment of Romany Gypsies and other travellers. Continue Reading The Plight of the Romany Gypsies
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Family: Conversations with Nana
“For the best retrospectives on professional tennis tournaments, I would usually turn to my grandmother.” Continue Reading Family: Conversations with Nana
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Love Letter to Olympia #106
“This is one of the beauties of the place that I call home sometimes in my mind: that you can buy a dozen organic eggs at the long polished wood ...
What to Wear
Suzanne Morrison rediscovers herself, and her love of books, after a sojourn among the excesses of New York City. Continue Reading What to Wear
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Walk the Perimeter
Oliver David reflects on the impact of the Olympic Games and its legacy in East London. Continue Reading Walk the Perimeter
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Zwarte Piet: Tolerance Gone Wrong in the Netherlands
Mieke Weismann examines the Dutch tradition of Zwarte Piet, and the troubling face of entrenched racism Continue Reading Zwarte Piet: Tolerance Gone Wrong in the Netherlands
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With A Shot
“I glare, despite knowing direct eye contact is perceived by dogs as confrontational. I glare because I am angry… She does not attack, but she tears me apart.” ...
Blade Runner: Misery-fest or Masterpiece?
“When it all boils down, the most perfect example of dystopia, for me, is not to be found in literature, it’s to be found in film. One particular film, in ...
Dystopia: In The Eye Of The Shaman
“His attitude is more fatalistic, and I get a sense that he believes in some new world in which he, as a believer, will be included.” Continue Reading ...
Orphaned – Sketches from Dystopia
“Dystopia is slower, less pronounced. Things spoil and curdle, the norms change, and what we expect from the world morphs into something new, where the expectations about our quality of ...
Doctor Who: The Curse of the Celery
Confessed Whovian Tim Brook recalls a fascination with Peter Davison’s stick of celery on the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. Continue Reading Doctor Who: The Curse of the ...
The Skillet
“I knew my dad was home, puttering around in the dining room grumbling to himself as was his way… But I didn’t care about any of that, because I had ...
Unfamiliar Country
American writer Zachary Watterson gives his advice on the personal essay, and recounts a memorable visit to the Eastern Bloc. Continue Reading Unfamiliar Country
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Excerpt from Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Licenza
“An enemy aeroplane appears at the edge of the blue, among the gun bursts. Eyes look up towards the torn sky. You can see the whites, but not the whites ...