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Tshinanu
Naomi Fontaine
Plus tard, ils me diront comme tu étais un grand homme. Un savant. Un érudit de la chasse.
Clown School
Nuar Alsadir
Political resistance, poetry, self-revelation all spring from that provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints.
The File: Lost Then Found
A.M. Homes
‘Even for those of us who feel we have integrated our history, there can be fragments, like shrapnel, that push to the surface without warning.’
Language In Exile
Mireille Gansel
One summer’s day, for the first time, Mitzi broached the past. Past in the present, so present, with everything it had deposited in this room that suddenly seemed so vast. Everything that the grim tide deposits on the shores of a life.
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.
