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 ...
I stood from the cot next to the shared wall. My mom leaned in close to hear you. Another crash. Furniture scraping against the floor. We listened to someone’s heavy ...
The sun beats through the humid air, upon the stone and dirt streets. High cumulus clouds drift above the heavy-forest limestone mountains.
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The train between Mexico City and Nuevo Laredo was called the Águila Azteca (Aztec Eagle). Within a year of this ride, this passenger train service – along with dozens upon dozens ...
He indicated a solitary rose drooping against a cracked wall in which curious lizards cocked their heads, and then he swept his arms encompassing everything around us.
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There are three cats in this story: two dead; one dying, then dead. There is one man. Also dying, then dead. This is a true story.
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Sitting in the Cricketers pub, I listened as Grandma asked me whether I typically experienced difficulties “passing stools.” She seemed disappointed when I told her, “No, I didn’t.” I was ...
The house I’ve lived in with my family for the past two years is spacious and newly renovated. The comforts are numerous, the company good. But in the spring of ...
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Angela stood in the doorway. Black jeans, nice coat, expensive trainers. I thought she was one of the posh wives with a donation: a Waitrose carrier bag ...
The 21st of February is International Mother Language Day – the most celebrated day worldwide for languages. Grimly, this day also poses a strange paradox – a day that reminds ...
A native Brit living in Berlin experiences Russia.
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January 2020. We were preparing for a new semester, a doomed semester, but we didn’t know it yet. On the third floor of ...