‘Life is dull if there's no story to listen to or nothing to watch’.
Life is dull if there’s no story to listen to or nothing to watch. When I was a child, if we weren’t staring out of the window at the street and the passers-by, or into the apartments of the building opposite, we were listening to the radio, on top of which a small porcelain dog perpetually slep…
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Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
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Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
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‘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.
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Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
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‘I think I stayed with the text for as long as I needed to give meaning to my grief, crying not in Johanna’s absence but with her.’
Sigrid Rausing on transcribing, translating and editing Johanna Ekström’s final notebooks.
‘The people who lived here lived in the heads of whales.’
A historian from New England goes to the Bering Strait.
