“The action star has gone to great lengths to avoid the press for more than a decade. But maybe our writer could track him down anyway?”
England
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A Preservation of Summer Pulled into Winter
“The gin, now, is wrapped up in those memories: wild and unruly in both ways, full of the tang of the uncultivated tree, the illicit uses of these spaces otherwise unused by people.”
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A Day in the Life of an Oak Tree, from Mistle Thrush in the Morning to Mice at Midnight
“The pollen of the catkins is sweet on the proboscis of the oak-mining bee, too.”
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Creatures That Don’t Conform
“Could we learn anything from the slime molds? What could they teach us in this moment of change?”
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14 Hours in The Queue to See Queen Elizabeth’s Coffin
“Stood among strangers in search of history, I had a strange epiphany.”
Posted inNonfiction
Selling Mayfair: The Very Different World of Prime Central London Realtors
On the fascinating world of London real estate.
Posted inNonfiction
The Great British Reading List
A reading list on the weird and wonderful culture of Great Britain.
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The Reckoning: Rape Culture and the Crisis in British Schools
“After Scarlett Mansfield collated 200 accounts of sexual harassment, inspectors put her former school on notice. Could it be the first of many?”
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The Joy of a Pointless Walk
“Maybe walking into some marshes, and deciding at an undetermined future point to stop walking, was what was available to the Romantics, but I think we can do better.”