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Mar 7, 201811 min read
Strange Truths
HOPE SUTHERLAND - Myth has long played a part in the construction of group identities.
Mar 7, 201813 min read
The Bedside of the Mind
LAURA HACKETT - Vladimir Nabokov’s dream diary seeks to free writing about the subconscious from the shadow of Freudian analysis.
Mar 7, 201811 min read
Genealogical Anxiety
DANIEL KODSI - Srinivasan has also written about ideology and the ineffable, and is currently working on a book on 'genealogical anxiety'.
Mar 7, 20189 min read
How the Text Lost its Body
PETER VICKERS - The neural network, like everything inhuman, will not kill the author.
Mar 7, 20188 min read
Lonely Daze
RODDY HOWLAND JACKSON - Society may be united in its praise for these works, but these works do not envision a united society.
Nov 23, 20171 min read
Embrace
from a certain shore, / you did not look so distant, / and I fell giddy at / the thought of boats.
Nov 23, 201715 min read
Discarded Realities
Oliver Eagleton - the centenary of the October Revolution, two writers try to capture its frenzied atmosphere.
Nov 23, 20177 min read
Dead Modern
CLARISSA MAYHEW - Architectural fashions that come and go with correspondent ideologies, but so too do humane housing policies.
Nov 17, 20178 min read
'Object' Oppenheim
This story starts with a cliché, in a bohemian café in Paris with Picasso, his lover Dora Maar and Méret Oppenheim drinking tea.
Jun 21, 201710 min read
The Consequential Philosopher
JOHN MAIER -Peter Singer talks to ORB about the haughtiness of critics, alienation, suffering ,and the importance of academic freedom.
Jun 21, 20177 min read
Humanity 2.0
DANIEL SUTTON - Why are there still some qualities that elude the computer's reach?
Jun 16, 20178 min read
The 29 Steps
JESS BROWN - A mother's poetic touch.
Jun 12, 20179 min read
A Soul Is a Strange Factory
GABY-MANCEY JONES - Raymond Roussel's bizarre inventions capture the imagination and unlock the inner child.
Jun 12, 201711 min read
Ian McEwan's Brave New World
HUGO MURPHY - Ian McEwan promises to unify science and literature with human morality in his fictional worlds.
Jun 12, 20178 min read
Locked Up Literature
CLARISSA MAYHEW - The incarcerated compose their own histories, and in doing so reflect the present and rewrite the future ...
Jun 11, 201711 min read
Escaping the Revolution
NILOO SHARIFI - The Iranian poet Esmail Khoi has turned his memories of revolution into poems that mourn the loss of his motherland.
Jun 9, 20179 min read
Mr Clegg's Zoetrope
BENJAMIN DAVIES - The ORB interviews Nick Clegg and Ed Balls on why we should be reading political books.
Jun 9, 20175 min read
If Paths Could Speak
JEM BOSSATA - Tales from Lake Como
Jun 8, 20177 min read
On the Edge of Wonder
CHRISTOPHER PAGE - In the wake of the US withdrawal from the Paris Accords, we must appreciate the fragments of nature at our fringes.
Jun 8, 201711 min read
Two Kinds of Murder
DANIEL KODSI - What is the history behind ‘genocide’ and ‘crimes against humanity’? Philippe Sands speaks to the ORB.
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