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New Guinea is not at all a childish dream; West Papua is not at all a childish dream. It is…
Miranda Miller on a childhood experience that profoundly affected her. Miranda Miller describes how a troubling encounter in childhood has…
When I first heard a poet read, in a chemistry laboratory at Newcastle University, he was Ted Hughes; his gruff…
Elanor Dymott explains how research nearly derailed her career, and Alex Martin considers action vs. contemplation. Elanor Dymott explains how…
At sixteen, they took me to the National where I fell in love with Rosencrantz, totally unaware that also on…
Newspaper stories act as one of my biggest writing inspirations. I’ve often come across a random story which gets my…
Alicia Foster on the perennial appeal of the attic room for artist and writers. Researching her study of the artist…
Whenever anything awful happened somewhere in the world, I would be sent there: fly out Wednesday; file the copy Friday,…
Lucy Moore speaks with James McConnachie about female French revolutionaries and rebellious maharanis. Lucy Moore speaks with James McConnachie about…
Getting angry is bad for you. Incidentally, getting angry with editors is more than just bad, it’s stupid; they always…
I can’t move on to the body of the text until I’ve written a satisfactory beginning, and to get this…
Katharine Grant wonders where her ideas come from. An author’s ideas are essential to the writing process, but how and…
