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TWICE STOLEN
She didn’t like tea. She wasn’t even sure why she was drinking the murky brew. Except maybe, that it had become their evening custom.
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay
Sweatpants Won’t Set Us Free: Who Gets To Dress Down In A Post-Covid World?
As our year of lockdown living draws to an end, there is a groundswell of opinion that terry towel trousers might stick around post-pandemic, becoming as acceptable to wear on ...
#EssaySaturday, Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, Essay
How fantasy literature and media can benefit our mental health
What if fantasy literature and media can be beneficial for our mental health, alongside being a huge amount of fun?
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Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, Essay
A Worldly Chronology of the Naked Nationalism of the Shambolic Vaccine
A global account of the vaccine rollout and mishaps so far.
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Digging the Barrows of ‘Antaeus’ and the ‘Bog Queen’: On Living, Dying and Something In Between in the Landscapes of Seamus Heaney’s North
Seamus Heaney’s landscapes are as grim as they are liminal…..
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Can Landscape Writing Change the World? The Human Geography of Ivan Turgenev’s Sketches
Half poetry and (perhaps) half polemic, the work takes the form of a series of ruminations on the Russian rural landscape as a travelling huntsman journeys through its meadows and ...
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay
Landscape Literature: Reclaiming the wilderness of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
Such is the gospel of Henry David Thoreau. Transcendentalist, eco-anarchist and wild old man of the woods, Walden is a gargantuan presence in landscape writing that never fails to make ...
#EssaySaturday, Editor's Pick, Essay
Oyster
Death becomes her in this lyrical exploration of Robert Wiles’ famous photograph.
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Boris in the thick of it! Again.
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay
The Final Hour For Brazil
While the Pandemic roars through South America, Brazilian president Bolsonaro says he’s arming the population for a coup.
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North & South
‘The truth universally acknowledged is how I am a southerner and I hate northerners.’
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Why Italians are dancing on balconies during the Covid-19 emergency
The Covid-19 emergency has pushed Italian communities – as well as the rest of the world – to start dancing and singing on balconies. While the victims are tragically increasing, ...
A Few Words on Lockdown in Northern Italy
I keep thinking ahead to when this will be a memory. The worst spring. The spring when the blossoms and the birds were oblivious to our cries.
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