The senior fellow’s semi-shaven Adam’s apple
shifty on the frayed collar of his check shirt.


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Ian Jack on the legacy of the Scottish textile bleaching industry.
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Fiction by Dan Shurley, featuring the 2019 explosion of an oil refinery in Philadelphia.
‘Black waves bring animals to the town’s shore. Sticky corpses float on the oil.’
Ariel Saramandi on the sinking of the MV Wakashio off the coast of Mauritius.
‘None of us hung out with them or knew them really, except two boys in our class, who stopped going to school after crude oil became such a big deal.’
A story by Claudia Durastanti, translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris.
‘His best photographs are expressionistic, almost calligraphic, as though he’s displaying the hidden signatures our collective appetites have etched across the Earth.’
Anthony Doerr introduces the photography of Edward Burtynsky.
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‘on our knees in bathrooms internationally / dependent on a disguise of sovereignty’
‘Is anyone an authority on themselves, whether on their sexuality or anything else?’
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