Rachel Howard: Paradise Was Ash

I don’t mean to complain, but the thrice-daily knock-on-the-door announcing the delivery of food was no longer welcome...

My favourite public-house, the Moon Under Water, is only two minutes from a bus stop, but it is on a side-street...

Where do you put that memory as you sit in a café in Dizengoff Street, when it taps you on the shoulder and asks if this seat is taken?

Through the plague year, nature has been the only permitted escape: the parks, the hikes...

For Nancy, democracy is not a given form of government, with a fixed meaning, but a term whose meaning is in contestation...

The Dud Avocado follows the period young Sally Gorce chooses an expat existence in Paris over college...

Tribalism is binary: the grey zone of subtlety, ambiguity, complexity and hesitation shrinks almost to nothing. Mistakes become crimes...

Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen...

The book runs the gamut of conservation techniques: specimen collection and field research, zoos and nature preserves, assisted colonization, and de-extinction via genetic rescue...

Seventeenth-century Christian churches might have been better fortified against the challenges of modernity if they had embraced Spinozism...

With these impedimenta carefully corded up in a strong deal box I felt myself equal to any photographic emergency...

Blow Out contains premonitions galore about where conspiratorial thinking, and the technology that encourages it, ultimately leads us...

This conception of meaning-seeking motivates his modern adaptation of Buddhism, his pluralistic ethics, and his cross-cultural approach...

Aristotle was rarely puzzled, but even he had to admit that lobsters were weird...

I was six years old when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Overnight, Kabul was transformed from a bustling city to a silent prison yard...

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know...