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Labyrinth of the Heart
Mark Slouka
‘Every marriage is forged differently; some crack at a touch, others endure beyond belief, still others are tempered by events and time.’
Love in the Graveyards of Industry
Jeremy Seabrook
‘Love was no longer encoded in recognised behaviours, but became subject to private desires and idiosyncratic needs.’
Mother and Father
Thomas Kilroy
‘Like most wars, this was a war of the young.’ Thomas Kilroy on his parents’ experience of the Anglo-Irish War and the Irish civil war.
On Shakespeare and the Quest for Belonging
Minal Hajratwala
‘We may not belong to Shakespeare, nor he to us, ever.’
On Shakespeare and Aemilia Lanyer
Sandra Simonds
‘I gently propose that for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death we stop reading Shakespeare and shift our attention to the poems of Aemilia Lanyer’. Sandra Simonds on Shakespeare and Aemilia Lanyer.
On Sonnet 50
Paula Bohince
‘I love Shakespeare’s slow insistence, which mirrors the action within the poem: there is nothing but grief to reach.’ Paula Bohince on Shakespeare’s sonnet 50.
Peace Shall Destroy Many
Miriam Toews
‘It creates deep-seated wells of rage that find no release.’ Miriam Toews on pacifism in Mennonite communities.
Possible
Wendell Steavenson
‘I don’t know how to think about this. How to stretch compassion for one person into a million.’ Wendell Steavenson on Europe’s migrant-refugee crisis.
Propagandalands
Peter Pomerantsev
From 2016: Peter Pomerantsev reports from Ukraine’s Donbas region.
