Birdsong
A fine short story, set in Lagos, about an affair going sour.
What Happened to Val Kilmer? He’s Just Starting to Figure It Out.
Yes, this is a profile of Val Kilmer, but it’s also something more far reaching, reflecting on the world in lockdown, religious belief and serious illness, Mark Twain, and the perverse impact that fame can have (“God wants us to walk, but the devil sends a limo.”).
The Bard
The powerful story of a man who made it his mission to preserve the songs sung to him by fellow prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp.
How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump
A look at how wealthy areas of the United States that were historically bastions of establishment Republican politics have come to align with Donald Trump.
My Life With Face Blindness
On life with prosopagnosia, a condition that impairs sufferers’ abilities to recognise familiar faces.
‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+
The author’s time spent bingeing on Disney+ provides the perfect backdrop for this study of the company’s canon, their ‘mission’, and their corporate fortunes.
Color and Light
It’s a safe bet that anyone who enjoyed reading Sally Rooney’s novels, or is enjoying watching the BBC adaptation of Normal People, will enjoy this short story.
Mapping subterranean Britain’s tubes
A speaker from the Ordnance Survey details the challenges that mapping today’s subterranean infrastructure presents in this talk.
The Case of the Stolen Ruby Slippers
The strange story of the theft of Jennifer Garland’s Wizard of Oz slippers.
Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing
The author of this piece looking to help readers finding the pandemic hard to comprehend outlined its scope as “everything from the virus itself to the symptoms it causes, from deceptive numbers to swirling misinformation, from our desire for simple narratives to the nature of expertise in a crisis too large for any one person to grasp.”