The Demolished School
"Spending years of loneliness
sitting on that toilet seat, a haven
from slow lunch times with no friends, I knew the peeling paint
as if it were my own palm, cream cracking, exposing
the avocado green of the seventies."
Loneliness, and why we need to practise talking about difficult things
Feeling lonely is not something to be ashamed of, or something that you only feel when you are in crisis; it is a part of our daily lives.
At the Station
A laugh into the silence, a step into the stillness, and a single breath seems to make the station tremble.
Friday Favourite: A Month in the Country
Sometimes you reread a book because it is beautiful; sometimes you do it because a mysterious benefactor on your flight gave you a concerning...
Review: Malcolm The Miserable
Ottilie Mitchell reviews new play Malcolm The Miserable at the BT studio.
Oxford Collage: A conversation with Theodore Zeldin
Charlotte Tosti speaks to philosopher, historian and Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Theodore Zeldin, about the evolution of conversation
Dispatches: ‘Marooned between past and present, not here’
A short story of everyday escapism, by Izzy Smith