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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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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.” ...
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 ...
Doris Lessing: A Reflection
Paul Blezard on his memory of Nobel Prize-winning author, Doris Lessing, who died on 17th November 2013. Continue Reading Doris Lessing: A Reflection
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The Wrong Way to Eat an Artichoke
“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 ...
Old Grandmasters Never Die, They Just Fade Away
“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, ...
Two Plastic Bags and a Wristband
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 ...
The Town Pool
Down on his luck and struggling to make ends meet, Carlos Cunha finds a temporary respite behind the chain-link fence of the municipal pool. Continue Reading The Town ...
Truth, Memory and Memoirs
Sam Dodson ponders why we are so stung when the truths revealed in a celebrity memoir turn out to be lies. Conversely, why do we willingly watch, read and engage ...
Biography: The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrn
“Austen was worldlier, more intellectual and more professional than she was portrayed…” Andre van Loon on a fresh look at a hidden Jane Austen, revealed through royalty cheques, hats, jewellery, ...
Say It with Flowers
The understanding I have of my grandparent’s lives is fake. It comes to me in Chinese whispers from biased observers. It sloshes around in my imagination until it seems to ...
Memoir: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway is used as a barometer for the manly or literary class. He is everywhere, his name employed as an easy endorsement. In Spain, Cuba, France and the United States ...
Litro #100: South London, Travel&Lifestyle
Carter Jackson — Rat Hunting
I grew up duck hunting. Which I never really liked because you had to wake up at some obscene hour, wade through a freezing swamp and sit in a dark ...
Litro #104: History, Travel&Lifestyle
Extract from Across Many Mountains by Yangzom Brauen
1. Trapped For fear of Chinese soldiers, they only dared walk through the freezing nights, with no light to guide them but the stars. The mountains were black towers before ...
Yangzom Brauen: Swiss-Tibetan Actress and Political Activist
When I look at the childhood photographs my parents took, my earliest memories start when I was about four years old. These pictures give me back the sensual feelings I ...