Climate writes the recipe by Arun Kapil We don’t really do heat over here. I grew up in Britain, now live in Ireland and I can report that both nations react to a heatwave with admirable determination and almost no practice. The thermometer nudges past twenty-five degrees and, almost overnight, we become a nation…

Arina Krasnikova on Pexels Be in Awe Be in awe: language was given to usWhat a marvellous neural mechanismWhat a way to send ideas through the air What magnificent undulations, these that binddeep roots without our touchingWhat invisible magic in the frontal lobeWhat a way to illuminate the intricate tapestryof the exocerebrum Marvel at…

Charles Cowlam. Charles Family Photographs, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina. by Peter Cowlam The full title of Frank W. Garmon’s sweeping account of the career of Charles Cowlam is A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlam’s Masquerades in the Civil War Era & Gilded Age. Garmon explains in his preface to the…

David Yip. Courtesy of the Yip Family by David Yip After working away from my home town, Barrow-in-Furness, since I was 17 years old, I return to work as a General Manager in a busy bar/restaurant. (Little do we know what is coming around the corner). The place is on the high street and…

Painting by Sukrita Paul Kumar Sukrita Paul Kumar chants with a tune that, often like Rumi, fuses the mystical rhythms of nature with stark yogic realism and the forensic reality of human loss. A former Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at the University of Delhi and the 2023 Rabindranath Tagore Award winner, her work transcends…

Possible development of Eric Laithwaite’s ideas for an inertial drive. X generated Eric Laithwaite’s Inertial Propulsion Technology is Hidden in Plain Sight by Phil Hall One of the things that happens if you are recruited into intelligence is that, if anyone asks, you must deny that you were recruited. If people know you went…

Dresden after it was bombed in 1945 by the USA and the UK This is about the future of Europe, about the future of the UK. That’s what WE give a damn about by Richard Steinhardt My father once explained something to me. He said, “You see, we always think these people, these capitalists…

Food is hand, heat, knife, pan, steam, argument, silence, mess, smell, timing, sharing. Photograph Arun Kapil Syringes, powders, protein pots and the stubborn joy of the table by Arun Kapil I am a trolley-snooper. Kind of. There, I’ve said it. I do it in Lidl, Waitrose, Tesco, SuperValu, airport Boots, motorway service stations, anywhere…

Kennedy’s motorcade through Cork, Ireland. Photograph Robert LeRoy Knudsen , U.S. National Archives and Records Administration J. F. Kennedy, Reluctant Heir by Norman B. Schwartz When John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was twenty-seven and in a military hospital in Arizona, an airplane explosion over England killed his elder brother, Joseph Kennedy…

Photograph Bitan Chakraborty Kiriti Sengupta divides his time between New Delhi and Santiniketan, the university town Rabindranath Tagore founded as a centre for learning and the arts, and this dual base anchors his writing in both contemporary Indian life and Bengal’s literary heritage. As a translator of Tagore and other Bengali poets, Sengupta has…