My long and ambivalent relationship with the Albert Memorial started soon after I was brought...
My long and ambivalent relationship with the Albert Memorial started soon after I was brought as a child to London from Kingston, Jamaica. I was old enough to possess fragments of memory from another place, young enough to be wide open to the influences of my new city. We lived in Paddington in the …
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‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
‘As I stood in front of the immigration officer, I was already worrying about my answers to the questions he might ask’.
I come from a generation which still, fifty-odd years on, looks up and once in a while thinks, 'Good, one of ours.'
‘There had been an unbelievable amount of talk about the weather, not to mention the end of the world and so on’.
My long and ambivalent relationship with the Albert Memorial started soon after I was brought...
‘Millennials were more than willing to bargain by riot.’
Anton Jäger evaluates the millennial generation.
