Aminatta Forna visits the Shetland Islands to explore her grandfather’s roots…

Lemonade, crackers, glitter, picnic blankets...

You Cannot Wear a Rainbow by Douglas Penick

Even in the Buddha’s teachings, the direct experience of omnipresent wakefulness falls prey to hierarchies...

Where did the what sailor go?

Chekhov death fanatics abound. His last sip of champagne. The whole thing about the popping of the cork...

Forbidden Treasures

Approximately 250,000 priceless artefacts somehow escaped destruction by fire, water, moths and termite...

Genese Grill’s Winter

Does one consider the beginnings more when at end-times?

Beneath the cultural motley and profanities, Joyce's Ulysses is powered by love...

In Australia

Fire, a defining feature of Australian history, might have been expected to produce a great storyteller...

Rapping on club beats is hard...

‘Gauss PDF was never a commercial enterprise’

Ordinary people may become fledgling financiers of computer records…

Now the digital exhaust of all that life online is poised to become an asset class for speculative investment...

Of particular importance in the revisionist lesson is the task of clearing Dracula from any association with vampirism...

Orwell’s Cuppa

The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...

The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...

‘from An Explanation of America: Countries and Explanations’ by Robert Pinsky

Farah Abdessamad on François-René de Chateaubriand

I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...