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An Elegy for a Young Man

2023-09-15T12:08:30+01:00

Poet Thom Gunn found his greatest—and most harrowing—subject in the AIDS epidemic. Read more

An Elegy for a Young Man2023-09-15T12:08:30+01:00

The delicious schadenfreude of Burning Man

2023-09-08T11:59:08+01:00

The 2017 Fyre festival was meant to be the greatest, most luxurious and exclusive party of the century. It turned out to be a fraudulent and incompetent catastrophe, with attendees

The delicious schadenfreude of Burning Man2023-09-08T11:59:08+01:00

Pence can’t turn the clock back on the Republican Party

2023-09-08T11:50:47+01:00

Mike Pence gave an interesting speech this week. Which isn’t a sentence you read often. But in his speech in New Hampshire Pence argued that the Republican party is at

Pence can’t turn the clock back on the Republican Party2023-09-08T11:50:47+01:00

One Equal Temper of Heroic Hearts

2023-09-08T12:10:54+01:00

Lord Tennyson’s poem lauds the strength of human will ‘to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.’ Read more

One Equal Temper of Heroic Hearts2023-09-08T12:10:54+01:00