“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 ...
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.
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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 ...
At the BSI Innovation Management Summit, Eric Akoto reflects on how the UK’s innovation frameworks can better connect systems and imagination — and why inclusion must be part of any ...
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 ...
A surreal, fragmented meditation on humanity’s intersection with technology, memory, and chaos.
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Shanghaied, takes readers on a surreal and introspective journey through a layover in Shanghai that unravels into paranoia, mishap, and poignant self-discovery.
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A sharp, insightful political commentary exploring Pakistan’s flawed democratic process.
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America’s train stations and air terminals are its true cathedrals, motels may be it’s shrines.
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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 ...
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 ...
Supposedly, I should be keen on immigration, for I am from a Hakka family whose tradition is traveling around.
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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 ...
When I am right here right now, where you can help?!
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How can children make sense of change? Recalling hot summers and spam salads, Kim reflects on childhood memories.
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In this poignant, personal essay, Tom sits with his terminally-ill uncle, Baz, and explores life, loss and laughter, right up to the end.
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“I had lost faith in novelly novels. In their fake plots, fake events, fake characters.” Jonny Aldridge talks autofiction, masculinity and Wes Brown.
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Author Robin Stevens reflects on the pressures of conforming to feminine expectations during Christmas, advocating for the timeless joy of gifting books.
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“If mystics are right, how many lives can we have?” Michelle finds the myriad joys and surprises that the prophecies of psychics can brings.
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How does the Booker Prize maintain its relevance in contemporary literature? From Paul Lynch’s recent win to debates on subjectivity and the balance between commercialization and creativity, this article delves ...
