The Contemporary Poetry and Music Circle was hugely influential in the post-war years. Its legacy is finally being unearthed ...

In Brazil’s tropical wetlands, ecotourism has forged an uneasy truce between cattle farmers and their old enemies ...

This prequel to the Southern Reach trilogy breaks every rule – unsurprising for Jeff VanderMeer, the king of new weird fiction ...

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The Moon, “like to a silver bow” (Shakespeare), “sole in the blue night” (E. E. Cummings), with its “face like the clock in the hall” (Robert Louis Stevenson), has inspired poetry for centuries. Now a ...

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Prequels often feel unnecessary; they indulge in gratuitous over-explication of things that never needed to be explained. Not so with Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution, a prequel to his Southern Reach ...

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Women dating in their 50s and 60s is now normal and celebrated. Let's take a moment to appreciate how far we've come The painting "Nameless and Friendless" by Emily Mary Osborn (1857) may have been ...

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