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Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Tensions of Travel

A great writer’s legacy demands constant renewal. Books left on a shelf, whether they are Tolstoyan or trash, gather dust. They look dog-eared, old-fashioned and uninviting. A critic’s task, sometimes,…

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Returning the Benin Bronzes

The year 1897 was not a particularly eventful year in Britain. Queen Victoria celebrated her diamond jubilee. The Tate Gallery was inaugurated in London. Oscar Wilde was released from prison.…

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How Journal Editors Can Stifle the Writer’s Voice

Neither digital nor print magazines have any responsibility to publish everything that is sent to them. First, this isn’t even physically possible. Second, many submissions are poorly written, badly argued…

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Naming the Unnameable: Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens and the Defence of Free Speech

We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books;…

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What It’s Really Like to Be an OnlyFans Performer

Header photo of Ariel Anderssen, copyright Hywel Phillips, provided courtesy of the author. There are two ways to go about writing an article about a poorly understood, stigmatised minority. One…

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The Trick of Evocative Science Writing: “Books Do Furnish a Life” by Richard Dawkins

In his previous essay collection, Science in the Soul, Richard Dawkins ponders why a scientist has never received the Nobel Prize in Literature—the only possible exception, Henri Bergson, was “more…

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A Life of Cultural Appropriation: “The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi”

Fukuzawa Yukichi was born in 1835. When he was a young man, Japan was still a feudal society: static, rigid and almost completely isolated from the outside world, wanting nothing…

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5 min

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Would Hunter S. Thompson Be Cancelled Today?

It’s a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.—Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine. The father of gonzo journalism was known for his uncompromising but…

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7 min

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The Fault in Their Stars

A man can’t know where he is on the earth except in relation to the moon or a star. Astronomy comes first; land maps follow because of it. Just the…

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10 min

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The Microkindnesses of Larry David

Is Larry David a member of the British royal family? When Harry and Meghan sat down for their now fabled chat with the individual who expressed such interest in their…

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6 min

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Why Art Is Not Just a Vehicle for Meaning

People have always used art to understand aspects of the past and present and conceive visions of possible futures that remain unattainable by other means. Despite this, nowadays, outside of…

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7 min

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De Jure and De Facto Censorship: Why We Need to Be Concerned About Both

The last few weeks have seen dustups over the decision by the foundation overseeing Dr. Seuss’s works (i.e. Dr. Seuss Enterprises) to cease publication of six books deemed problematic, as…

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5 min

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The Rise of OnlyFans: A Sign of Economic Austerity

OnlyFans performer Ariel Anderssen has recently written about the ways in which she is empowered as an adult performer who is an active participant in the sex economy by choice.…

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Journalistic Objectivity: What Is True and What Is Important?

The objectivity, reliability and transparency of the news have become hot topics in recent years. Ours is the era of supposedly fake news, in which there is little consensus about…

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Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Tensions of Travel

Returning the Benin Bronzes

How Journal Editors Can Stifle the Writer’s Voice

Naming the Unnameable: Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens and the Defence of Free Speech

What It’s Really Like to Be an OnlyFans Performer

The Trick of Evocative Science Writing: “Books Do Furnish a Life” by Richard Dawkins

A Life of Cultural Appropriation: “The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi”

Would Hunter S. Thompson Be Cancelled Today?

The Fault in Their Stars

The Microkindnesses of Larry David

Why Art Is Not Just a Vehicle for Meaning

De Jure and De Facto Censorship: Why We Need to Be Concerned About Both

The Rise of OnlyFans: A Sign of Economic Austerity

Journalistic Objectivity: What Is True and What Is Important?

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