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Truth Be Told: Do facts matter in fiction?

On objective facts, subjective experience, and whether authenticity is more useful than truth in art. “Kind reader, with keen judgment...

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"Klara and the Sun": On Friendship and Being Seen

"The Festival of Insignificance": On Asking Big Questions

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On Gratitude: A virtuous cycle

On Douglas Murray's defence of gratitude, how being grateful resists the poison of resentment, and the reciprocal nature of appreciating...

Doctor Not-So-Strange: The shallowness of the MCU

Have the Marvel movies stopped being worth our time, and what does deserve our attention? As my wife and I emerged from a cinema into the...

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Reader

How good reading brings us closer to others, and how efforts to personalise all the settings on our lives make us lonelier – and more...

"The Darjeeling Limited": In search of what's missing

On Wes Anderson's 2007 film, The Darjeeling Limited, and how absence is at the heart of its story – and often at the core of how we...

Strange Relations: Unusual pairings of ordinary things

On what happens when otherwise mundane, familiar items are placed together – in museum displays, encyclopaedias, and other strange...

Course Correction: Obstacles to reading

On the things that get in the way of reading, and some possible methods of clearing those obstacles. I’m a sucker for the charm of New...

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