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Arts & Culture, Essay, Features, Reviews
HARD BEAUTY: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF DAVID WISE
On rediscovering the humane, intimate photography of David Wise
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay, Fiction, Flash Friday, Technology
Litro Flash Friday Challenge: THE ODDS ARE IN
Litro Flash Friday Challenge
THE ODDS ARE IN
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Fuera Trump y Milei
Buenos Aires, Argentina
In March 2025, I was renting a room off Talcahuano Street in downtown Buenos Aires. My neighbourhood was filled with second-hand music shops and gold-and-ore shops, and all ...
Zoe Schlanger’s The Light Eaters
“Portraits of a Book Report: Zoe Schlanger” (ink on paper. 11×14” 2024)
Back in the 1970s, a book called The Secret Life of Plants exploded onto The NY Times best seller ...
A Debt Measured in Time: Remembering Tom Stoppard.
I met Tom Stoppard once, in the quiet stacks of the London Library. He didn’t give me advice or aphorisms — he gave me something rarer: his time.
Art, Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Essay, Travel&Lifestyle
How Do We Keep Working? Ling Ma and Sarah Rose Etter’s Office Nightmares
A sharp, unsentimental read of late-capitalist burnout: Severance and Ripe render offices as dreamscapes of hunger, loyalty, and dread. This review asks the only question that matters—how do we keep ...
Editor's Pick, Education, Essay, Essay Saturday, Features, Technology
Crying in the Lingerie Department of Marks & Spencer
I was crying in the lingerie department.
No one noticed.
In this intimate memoir, a moment in a department store dressing room reveals the weight of grief, beauty, and the ...
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday, Features, Technology
When AI’s Dream in Fragments
A surreal, fragmented meditation on humanity’s intersection with technology, memory, and chaos.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday, Features, Technology, World Series Editions
Shanghaied
Shanghaied, takes readers on a surreal and introspective journey through a layover in Shanghai that unravels into paranoia, mishap, and poignant self-discovery.
Arts & Culture, Essay, Technology
The Farce of Democracy on the Pakistani Stage
A sharp, insightful political commentary exploring Pakistan’s flawed democratic process.
Editor's Pick, Essay, Technology, Travel&Lifestyle
Motels and Past Roads
America’s train stations and air terminals are its true cathedrals, motels may be it’s shrines.
Editor's Pick, Essay, Travel&Lifestyle
Rialto Rendezvous
If we arrange to meet in Venice, where would you suggest? Outside St Mark’s Cathedral might seem the obvious place, but hectic and not very relaxing with crowds of tourists ...
Editor's Pick, Essay, Technology
Road Trip in Serbia: Yes or No
Thelma and Louise sprang to mind while we were driving on the E763 towards Zlatibor. In our home movie, the roles were reversed. Instead of us being against the whole ...
Immigration: a Beautiful Environment Versus a Cruel Reality
Supposedly, I should be keen on immigration, for I am from a Hakka family whose tradition is traveling around.
Editor's Pick, Essay, Technology, Travel&Lifestyle
Mexico memories
Twenty-five years is a life ago. Mexico has changed, I have changed, but the image of the happy young bride wearing a short white dress is something burned into my ...
Arts & Culture, breakfic, Essay, Fiction
Jeff’s binge
When I am right here right now, where you can help?!
Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday, Features
Monsters and Angels
How can children make sense of change? Recalling hot summers and spam salads, Kim reflects on childhood memories.
Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday, Features
Sketches of Short Days
In this poignant, personal essay, Tom sits with his terminally-ill uncle, Baz, and explores life, loss and laughter, right up to the end.
Arts & Culture, Books, Essay, Literature
I Am Woman. Hear What I Want For Christmas!
Author Robin Stevens reflects on the pressures of conforming to feminine expectations during Christmas, advocating for the timeless joy of gifting books.
Arts & Culture, Essay, Essay Saturday, Features, Technology
Born Again
“If mystics are right, how many lives can we have?” Michelle finds the myriad joys and surprises that the prophecies of psychics can brings.