I was lucky. They only took my handbag. Sure, they had to floor me first, because I dared to clutch my possessions. “Was it at night?” is the question too ...
Can face masks become liberating? Continue Reading My skin is a silver lining | LITRO LAB PODCAST
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This week on Litro Lab, we bring you a spooky story about the complex relationship we all have with the objects we own. We like to accumulate them in our ...
unless you believe that belief in evolution is an innate phenotype arising from a single or cluster of genes that can be selected for—if this were the case, then in ...
Sometimes I like to pretend that I’m not really a city boy. Mostly on those days when the London air feels lifeless and vile, and so still that it sits ...
“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 ...
I’m not exactly sure how mourning’s supposed to go. At least, not this time. I’ve dealt with loss before. A young coworker’s tragic death at her sister’s wedding. An uncle succumbing to ...
But in Cuba, Che will never age, not as long as the myth is perpetuated. Continue Reading Mything Cuba
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My hospital does not do rape kits. This bothers me but not enough to make me quit.
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I was born frowning. Frowning is natural to me. Even if my brow isn’t – as the writers say – ‘furrowed’ or the line doesn’t blend between my eyes my ...
Film fashions have boldly gone where no-one has gone before. Continue Reading Imagining the Future
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Employing Celine Dion as a cultural barometer, Carl Wilson asks why we love the music we love in this excellent collection on taste, snobbery and coolness. Continue Reading ...
