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Apr 16, 20197 min read
THE LURE OF MIMCRY
Part of the motivation for reading literary fiction is the hunt for new uses of language. The search for exciting and innovative plots,...
Apr 16, 20199 min read
AN INTELLECTUAL FOR THE MASSES
JADE SPENCER In person, the academic and literary critic John Carey seems far less controversial than his fierce reputation would have...
Apr 16, 20191 min read
ARRIVALS
STEPHEN ROMER In the dejection, the treadmill of travel, a cowed, haltered, processed client, with two items of baggage and a transparent...
Apr 12, 201910 min read
Entering the Fray
GRACE CRABTREE - The quiet radicalism of weaving.
Mar 22, 20197 min read
Smoke and Mirrors
JACK CHAUNCY - The Ashmolean hosts the American controversialist in a new exhibition.
Mar 16, 20197 min read
My Mouchette
GEORGE WILSON - Internet encounters with a thirteen-year-old girl.
Mar 15, 201916 min read
What Is to Be Done?
JOHN PHIPPS - On Jonathan Franzen and the end of the world.
Mar 14, 20198 min read
Generation Crash
JADE SPENCER - Money makes the world go wrong.
Mar 14, 20197 min read
A Long Tragedy
SHANNON OSAKA -A report from the twenty-fourth United Nations Climate Conference.
Mar 1, 20194 min read
Riding High
JOHN PHIPPS – A surf journalist explains surfing's love affair with cocaine.
Nov 17, 20182 min read
Fruit Juice
you make my mouth water . as if I've crushed a / cantaloupe . or . clementine
Nov 16, 20189 min read
The River's Mouth
JESSIE GOETZINGER-HALL discusses the eerie world of Daisy Johnson's Man Booker-shortlisted novel
Nov 15, 201811 min read
Sprouting Doubt
SHANNON OSAKA unravels how politics has trumped science in the GMO debate
Nov 15, 20189 min read
Fitz-Roving
ARJUNA KESHVANI-HAM finds out if a Charing-Cross bookshop is still the hub of London bohemian life
Nov 15, 20189 min read
Divine Caprice and Cookies
SAMMY MORIARTY rediscovers the exuberance of Fran Ross' Oreo
Nov 15, 20188 min read
The Lure of Mimicry
JAMES MCNAMEY -Carolinn Hughes' translates all the sensations of her verse into her autobiographical debut novel
Nov 15, 201814 min read
Flaws and Forgiveness
DANIEL KODSI - in discussion with philosopher Miranda Fricker on the beauty of human frailty and the reality of ethical life.
Nov 14, 20186 min read
Clinton's Fever Dream
JOSEPH BAVERSTOCK-POPPY - Clinton's foray in to political thriller reveals the vacuity of his presidency
Sep 24, 20184 min read
Altered States
JOHN MAIER – excerpt
Sep 24, 201810 min read
The Last Interview with Bryan Magee
JOHN MAIER – A great public intellectual died last month.
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