I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t thought of how nice it would be, if I was here in this most romantic of cities with a love interest instead ...
From the dark days of almost daily violence to being named as the second safest city in the world by the United Nations in 2006, Belfast has come a ...
Britain is known for its drinking culture, its pub tradition of drinking until you can barely stand. A report by the World Health Organisation placed England as the 13th highest ...
Do novels change our experience? Does our experience change the way we read novels? How do the two entwine? We catch up with Ali Smith at the Charleston Literary Festival ...
A series of photographs taken by Russian photographer, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, during the last 40 days of her residence in the UK. Capturing the many diverse faces and scenes of the ...
We’re so well-taught to sit down and take it, to not cause a stir. This is the way things are, you don’t shake things up, you deal with it. You ...
Some of the most extraordinary art in all of history has been created in and about New York City—so don’t miss your chance to be an eyewitness. Continue ...
Brianna’s clothes flap like artificial tree leaves under thin, wooden boards and recycled clothesline pins adjacent to the windowsill. Under bobbing red curls, she smiles precariously. Continue ...
Chanel, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent: three of many fashion icons produced by France, the emblem of elegance, glamour and of thinness. How will the fashion world respond to France’s new ...
We asked Polish novelist A.M Bakalar to pick her list of 10 Women’s Books in Translation You Should Be Reading. From the tragic recollections of student life during the 1980s ...
By legend, it’s the birthplace of Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love – a fitting myth, seeing as it’s often hailed as one of the world’s most romantic islands. ...
Luckily my addiction to Instagram and other forms of social media is not at the level of having a relationship with a machine, however I can see that our inability ...
Neil Moore, convicted fraudster from East London, used his skills to escape from Wandsworth prison last month. How safe is secure? Continue Reading Wandsworth Inmate Fakes Email Bail
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I am thinking a lot about empathy these days – defensively, I might add – because my wife keeps accusing me of lacking this quality in relation to her. Of ...
In Syria, there is no end in sight after four years of war and 200,000 dead. Kiev is preparing for yet another attack. In this climate, can we really afford ...
Discovering a literary paradise in Iceland. Continue Reading Land of Fire and Ice
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Down and out in an airport in Amsterdam. Continue Reading The Night I Got Lost on the Way Home From China
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“I prayed the night before my cancer diagnosis, and then I prayed again the night after. It was during the darkness of those long months in hospital—robbed of my vitality, ...
Kevin Baker considers the ways in which Facebook acts as a memory database – and ponders what this means for the human brain. Continue Reading Why Facebook is ...
2015: Time to go get that startup of the ground or write that great Novel! Here are our five fears that are stopping you from living your dream. ...
