A fine look at the landmark documentary series Up, that has met a group of people every seven years throughout their lives, and has just released its latest instalment with its subjects aged sixty-three. As the author notes the series plays with the idea that to “spend time with a child is to dwell under the terms of an uneasy truce between the possibility of the present and the inevitability of the future”.
As one reader puts it, this story has everything: “Cannibal rats. Ghost ship. Abandonment…Smuggling.”
The remarkable story of a family that in the 1970s installed themselves in the VIP waiting room in New Delhi railway station and staked a claim to the ancient royal house of Oudh. They spent over 40 years being interviewed by a succession of journalists about their story – but was it true?
This profile of one of the world’s great climbers, who has since died, is really a study of a lifetime’s obsessive dedication to a single aim.
A 2018 story of grift in an unlikely place – the world of publishing.
A story of an abusive relationship. The fact that the husband was a police officer may have impacted what happened next when his wife was found shot, injured, but still alive.
A profile of the hugely successful and highly controversial YouTuber Felix Kjellberg, a.k.a PewDiePie. The story also acts a guide to “InnerYouTube”.
The daughter of a man with unlimited air travel for two, for life, describes its impact on his life and the lives of those around him in this warm profile.
This story about the author’s experience planning Prince’s autobiography with the man himself provides a wonderful window into this singular individual, with a singular creative vision for almost everything he touched.
The powerfully told story of the missionary who sought to convert a remote tribe on an island in the Indian Ocean, with tragic consequences.