“Words have a certain power and a certain weakness,”… That’s it! I think. That’s the word: sword. “Writers call the pen their ‘sword,’” I type. “Maybe words should be feared ...
What struck me was not the general theatrics of the whole thing but Trump’s phrase, the words ‘believe me’.
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Ask someone this question and the first answer is usually no. Then a pause, a reconsideration. The second answer, usually, is yes.
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You are more than your shoes. So is she. Which means you’re similar, which means you’re basic. Continue Reading Back to Basic
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Ever since I wanted to live in London, I wanted to live in Notting Hill. Now, I’m not quite sure why the area has such an appeal. Continue ...
So I sit here, on my log, watching the changes with a sinking heart.
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Linda Fawke recalls perilous flights in and out of Lukla Airport, at the start of the Everest trail. Continue Reading A Dangerous Glimpse of Nepal
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“Maximo had asked me whether I could serve—not everyone can, he added… Through it all, the figures in the Help Wanted ad from the Dallas Morning News beamed at me ...
Sean Beaudoin recalls a childhood spent living in the grounds of one of America’s most notorious mental institutions. Continue Reading I Remember: Fairfield Hills
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Three years in Fayetteville, and all that came with it. Continue Reading Three Years in Arkansas
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“What makes me my kind of nerd is that I’m into everything… I stepped out of the magic circle and came to terms with the fact that my rules don’t ...
“They’re powerful things, the circles that games make… I think back to the circles that I made for myself, and even now, twenty years later, I am struck by the ...
As games continue to develop and refine their techniques, Berit Ellingsen considers the architectures that arise in them, and how they may influence us as players – and as human ...
How social media is changing the modern novel. Continue Reading Micro-Narratives of the Everyday
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Ann Skea looks back on why only Ted Hughes could have written Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being — an audacious and imaginative reappraisal of the works of Shakespeare. ...
Rory Clements, whose sixth book in the John Shakespeare series of Elizabethan thrillers has just been published, uncovers a deadly circle of intrigue and treason in his hero’s home town, ...
Let Books Be Books is a campaign to put an end to the production of ‘boy books’ and ‘girl books’, and counts Philip Pullman, Malorie Blackman and Waterstones among ...
Life beside ruins is a curious existence. The area I know may disappear, and there is tension, excitement, in this threat. I watch for change. I don’t want to stop ...
Something was tearing up whole trees and throwing them into the sea. I supposed the debris was washing down from Scotland, spewed from the Tay and the Forth, Orkney and ...
Dan Holmes visits British writer and journalist Richard Grant in his new home on the Mississippi Delta, and is surprised to find the veteran traveller going native. Continue ...
