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Author: Liam Desroy
Date: 12/10/2012
These hunched-over suits, broken and staring into monitors: these were not the brave advocates I had read about: they did not threaten governments and neck whiskey; they wrote letters about estate tax and sucked at their gums.
Author: Liam Desroy
Date: 12/10/2012
You sit around, part-bored, part-terrified, guiltily hoping for disaster to come along.
Author: Rosie Jackson
Date: 12/11/2012
“The sleep of reason begets monsters” depicts the artist with his head resting on a table, his drawing tools scattered around him, while owls, bats and goblins swarm up ahead.
Author: Rosie Jackson
Date: 12/11/2012
An ex-Soviet icebreaker was recommissioned to circumnavigate the world in twenty-four hours at 88.7 degrees latitude, the heart of the arctic sea.
Author: Sarah Lester
Date: 12/11/2012
It shocks me to hear him describe our walk as a long distance. He’s only a few years older than me and his legs are so long.
Author: Anonymous
Date: 12/11/2012
Alys Moody takes a break from her PhD to spend even more time with Samuel Beckett.
Author: Sarah Lester
Date: 12/11/2012
He was one of my favourites when I was in my early twenties because, whilst most guys were instructing me gruffly to shut up and turn over, he was guarded about his body but not about his mind. The first time I tried to kiss him I lost my nerve and ended up biting his hand instead. “I know what you mean,” he said and bit my hand back too. He didn’t smoke and his hand tasted of soap and apples. It could have been a child’s hand, but I was glad that it wasn’t. He opened his mouth even wider and slid it around my clenched fist like a primeval reptile.
Author: Sarah Lester
Date: 12/11/2012
I tried not to be offended when he’d casually suggest other people I should sleep with. By Sarah Lester.
Author: Liam Desroy
Date: 03/04/2018
Britain's top mountaineer on the motivations of madness. By Liam Desroy.
Author: Sarah Lester
Date: 12/11/2012
Raucous laughter’s the last thing you’d expect at an event called “Executing Justice”