Literature
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Doing the devil’s work
Azrael’s name in Hebrew translates as “help from G...
So hard to be oneself
You can never know how someone else experiences th...
Thinking differently
In recent years the concept of “neurodiversity” ha...
From Falstaff’s pocket
For such small fish, anchovies pack a big punch. T...
Running out of futures
In his book Retromania (2011), Simon Reynolds cont...
That year’s kisses
Billie Holiday would die at the age of just forty-...
Cartographical imperatives
If you were taught the “correct” way to draw a map...
Careless
Teresa Thornhill’s father – a difficult presence i...
Crossword 1545
A PDF of crossword is available here The post Cros...
Sacred passions
A Martian whose knowledge of life on Earth came on...
Unconfined creativity
A few weeks ago I was in Lausanne for a conference...
Trinkets of the Thames
It is said that after tobacco arrived from the New...
Mappa fungi
Fungi can be found on all continents, thriving eve...
Imperial graffiti
Jean Genet (1910–86) knew the story of his life wo...
Coming out of her shell
I Heard Her Call My Name, Lucy Sante’s second work...
Share nicely?
Danny Dorling’s new book is a stark analysis of po...
A country on the slide
Perhaps no phrase more neatly sums up the past fif...
The edges of atrocity
A. B. Yehoshua once said that, although Aharon App...
Just do it
Louise Erdrich’s novels have always been regional ...
Wrong answer
When your previous book was a bestseller (and Bara...