“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.” ...
“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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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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“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 ...
“I read to be scared, to dwell in fear like a child. It’s like I snagged my jumper on a barb long ago, and the thread has been playing out ...
In addition to talent, exclusion is also a strong component in Brazilian literature. Rosane Carneiro addresses this, through a singular and bold history that is common in the country. ...
In March 2013, after thirty-eight years of campaigning, Clarice Herzog and her children received a new death certificate for her husband. Vladimir Herzog (1937-1975) was killed under torture during Brazil’s ...
Miriam Gordis finds unlikely parenting advice in Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha. Continue Reading Siddhartha’s Way to Enlightenment
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“Maybe ‘no means no’ wasn’t a thing yet, because my mouth was about to get raped by an artichoke. My dad walked around the table and tried again to push ...
“I hardly ever play chess any more and I don’t miss it. It’s clear now that it was never the game that kept me turning up. Grumpy, irritable and cold, ...
No matter how hard he tries, Charlie Hill can’t put the question of class behind him. Especially when it comes to writing his novels. Continue Reading On Class ...
Lawrence Durrell’s Monsieur is battered, foxed, faded, broken… It is a book about ruined lives, as so many fine novels are. It is also about the mystery of things. There ...
“I did my research before I came. This is the most likely time to see them. This is the peak of the solar cycle. But the clouds don’t pay attention ...
“Time passes slowly in the Paramó. Our warm blood palpates through the mountains now, amid the cold, continuous rain.” Geoff Bendeck finds emptiness and loss in Ecuador. Continue ...
Book Club member Patricia Duffaud finds out about a close-knit and rebellious club for urban Parkour runners in London. Continue Reading My Personal Cult – Parkour
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After the mass street demonstrations in Tunisia which brought about a change in government and inspired the Arab Spring, Alison Kieler revisits a country unsure about its identity and future. ...
Life on the cancer ward ebbs and flows in the way it does in any other tributary. A flutter of motion here, an abstract thought there. The need to eat ...
Reality TV shows and flipping burgers in New York. Continue Reading Three Minutes of Fame in New York
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