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Whenever I think about Toni Morrison, I think about my favorite teacher, Deborah Stanford, a black woman who, when I was in high school, helped me to understand that to read seriously was a discipline and a privilege, and that an author who helps us to do it is a kind of hero. Her brand […]

Though Newton-John will no longer be the “keeper of the forest,” as she previously put it, the four-time Grammy winner will still be taking up residence just 30 miles away, at Gaia, the retreat and spa she cofounded in 2005. “When we first came up with the concept of Gaia, it was to be a […]

Following the cancellation of both Stockholm Fashion Week and Oslo Runway – the former taking a pause to focus on launching a more sustainable alternative – Copenhagen Fashion Week (CPHFW) finds itself the only fashion week in Scandinavia for the SS20 season. Running 6 to 9 August, the platform and biannual event has environmental goals […]

Share 6th Aug 2019 It may seem like a small thing to hit “follow” on an account on social media, it takes a mere second after all and it’s just as easy to “unfollow” an account if they post content that you decide isn’t for you after all.  However, for high profile celebrities, royals and […]

Share 6th Aug 2019 Since splitting from her on again/off again flame, former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, for possibly the final time earlier this year, model Gigi Hadid has either managed to keep her dating life under wraps or has been living her best single life and not dating at all. Until now that […]

Share 2nd Aug 2019 Even with Instagram trialling taking away the visible “likes” function (it’s currently running a test with its Australian users among a number of other countries), the “follower” and “following” counts on the social media platform are still highly important, visible metrics about each social media account.  Overnight, the Duke and Duchess […]

I don’t understand the point of garden visits. Why do ordinary people, the owners of mere balconies and tiny yards, torment themselves by touring other people’s grand estates? Nut trees, stables, ancestral compost heaps: I need no reminder of what I am missing. So, unlike virtually every other gardener in Britain, I had no intention […]

Every time I see a picture of Boris Johnson, the U.K.’s new Prime Minister, I find myself thinking, Who does this guy remind me of, exactly? What follows is an attempt to answer that question. • A nineteen-nineties pro golfer turned high-blood-pressure-medication pitchman • The music teacher at a Brooklyn Heights preschool who played bass […]

The walls of the Central Intelligence Agency’s original headquarters, in Langley, Virginia, contain more than thirty miles of four-inch steel tubing. The tubes were installed in the early nineteen-sixties, as part of an elaborate, vacuum-powered intra-office mail system. Messages, sealed in fibreglass containers, rocketed at thirty feet a second among approximately a hundred and fifty […]

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