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A New Front Line
Lindsey Hilsum
Lindsey Hilsum shows how investigative reporting has become just as dangerous as frontline correspondence. ‘Investigative reporters are in more peril than ever and the front line has come to Europe.’
A Plausible Portrait
Ted Hodgkinson
‘My friends say I am secretive and devious,’ he wrote in the introduction to Picasso and Dora. ‘They’re right.’
Above the Tree Line
Teva Harrison
Teva Harrison visits and illustrates the Northwest Passage through the Canadian arctic for Granta 141: Canada
Abscessed Tooth
Debra Gwartney
‘Silence allows me to pretend that this happened to someone else a long time ago, and not to me.’
Actively Portly
Ian Hamilton
‘When Ian Rush was asked to explain his failure to score goals for Juventus he replied that being in Italy was like being in a foreign country.’
Actus Tragicus
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
‘Bach devises an ingenious symmetrical structure to underpin in music the theological division between Law and Gospel. ’
Adam’s Navel
Stephen Jay Gould
‘Since Omphalos is such spectactular nonsense, readers may rightly ask why I choose to discuss it at all. I do so, first of all, because its author was such a serious and fascinating man.’
Addressing Mental Health Through Reading Well
Debbie Hicks
‘Reading Well is more than just a booklist – it represents the power of reading to change lives.’
After Gandhi
Trevor Fishlock
‘His room is as he left it, furnished with a carpet, a spinning wheel, a low white table, a mattress and cushion.’
