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Among the Citizen Soldiers
Karan Mahajan
Karan Mahajan visits Lexington, Virginia – a centre of the Confederary – in the wake of the far-right rally in Charlottesville.
Entwined
Judith Scott & Joyce Wallace Scott
‘Through her art, Judy found a way to create beauty from what others discarded and, most importantly, she found her voice.’
Davos Woman
Trisha De Borchgrave
‘Did she process my gentle hand in the same way as the objectifying touch of the men before me? Did she know the difference?’
Prozac Culture
Brian Dillon
Brian Dillon on the Prozac craze of the 90s, and his experience taking the infamous antidepressant.
Getting Away With It
Timothy Phillips
A case of Russian espionage from Tim Phillips' book The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians, and the Jazz Age.
The Survivals of Lafcadio Hearn
Kenny Fries
‘Did Hearn feel comfortable in Japan because being a foreigner overshadowed his physical difference?’
Out of the Cell
Pico Iyer
‘I was inside a silence that was not an absence of noise so much as the living presence of everything I habitually walked – or sleep-walked – past.’