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Sinatra Sang in Sentences

The style guides say: keep your sentences short. Write cleanly, cut as many words as you can, and don’t overburden your reader’s short-term memory by delaying t... Read more

Who Rules the World

An appreciation of Noam Chomsky’s endless factcheck of American power

‘If you remember Chomsky is relevant, that his thinking might have shaped you in some dusty moment in the past, go back to the text.’

How to move on from Scorpio season

Your stars read by Sophie Mackintosh

The first step is to move blinking into the light. Then, maybe, to survey the wreckage. Then, maybe, to renounce the fear in your dirty heart. It is a fact u... Read more

‘We can certainly learn from the past. But it doesn’t mean that anything’s going turn out in the same way.’

A conversation with Antony Beevor

One day I took the train to see historian Antony Beevor in rural Kent. On the drive to his place from Bekesbourne Station, through country lanes, we passed ‘Osw... Read more

Brits on the Water

by Jamie Brisick

I’m grateful for the new pub, and on a Sunday afternoon my wife, two sons and I will while away a few hours watching soccer on the at-screen TV, drinking a pint... Read more

¡Qué tontos los ingleses!

The callousness of Brexit; the empathy of poets. By Martha Sprackland

Brexit feels personal. In my late teens I lived in Madrid, the solar plexus of the body of main-land Spain. I spend my life returning to it, now, an always-retu... Read more

Italian Cuisine

by Russell Norman

I have heard that Italian cuisine is the most popular style of cooking in the world. I don’t know if this is true, but what I do know is that Italian cuisine do... Read more

Just Kids by Patti Smith

A remembrance by Ana da Silva

I bought Just Kids in summer 2010 at Waterstones, in Notting Hill, London. My copy is the British first paperback edition. The book is so full of love, warmt... Read more

Downtown Beirut

by Anbara Salam

This elegant pedestrianized neighbourhood was formerly the vibrant historical centre of Beirut, and is now host to many of Beirut’s swankiest, and priciest, caf... Read more

The Terrible Prophecies of Brexit

by Yanis Varoufakis

Brexit rode to victory on the coat-tails of a type of discontent whose power sprang from its insuperable reluctance to specify its nature. Seemingly focused on ... Read more

as in an account of language not as in a meteor

by Ira Brand

She is exhausted by wanting to be heard, which does not equate to not wanting to be heard any more.

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Candice Carty-Williams offers a catalogue of a body

In the white spaces through which I move, I am invisible and painfully visible at the same time.