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The Art Of Noticing

There is a particular kind of light that exists for about twenty minutes after sunrise. It arrives low and unhurried, moving across surfaces at an angle that ordinary daylight never finds. It catc...

Phone vs. Pen: a zero-sum game?

A common complaint made against pen and paper is that they are less ‘efficient’ than phones. In the eyes of many they are anachronistic forebears of the devices which now do it all for us. The gen...

A Glimpse of Don McCullin

I hadn’t expected to come across Don McCullin on a farm in Somerset. I was on holiday to escape from things; nothing in particular, just the responsibility and concomitant stress of the everyday. ...

Wykehams Buchclub – Mihail Sebastian, Frauen (1933)

Diese Woche besprechen wir „Frauen“ von Mihail Sebastian. Diese erstmals 1933 erschienene Novelle ist eine verführerische, berauschende und bisweilen beunruhigende Erzählung. Sie erkundet d...

Wykehams Buchclub – Zadie Smith, Intimations: Sechs Essays (2020)

Buchclub, 17. April: Das Buch dieser Woche heißt „Intimations“ von Zadie Smith. Der Untertitel „Sechs Essays“ lässt nicht auf die emotionale Großzügigkeit der Sammlung schließen. Ebens...