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31 Mar 2020

Fashion in the Age of Coronavirus

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Paul Fürst's famous engraving of a  plague doctor (c. 1721) People think that heroic medical and military personnel in their...
29 Mar 2020

Turn and Face the Strange (On Coronavirus and the State of Funk)

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It's interesting (to me at least) how extraordinarily relevant some of D. H. Lawrence's essays and articles still seem, even ...
28 Mar 2020

Soon It Will Be Easter

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F. N. Souza: The Deposition (1963) Oil on canvas (138 x 170.5 cm) Soon, it will be Easter ... And this year, Christ's peri...
26 Mar 2020

It's Failure to Live That Makes Us Sick (D. H. Lawrence in the Age of Coronavirus)

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Alan Bates as Birkin and Jennie Linden as Ursula Women in Love (dir. Ken Russell, 1969) In Chapter XI of Women in Love , there...
25 Mar 2020

On Protecting the NHS

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One of the justifications for the Great Confinement - or lockdown as those who prefer prison slang refer to it - is that we nee...
23 Mar 2020

On Keeping Calm and Carrying On in the Age of Coronavirus

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The British have long prided themselves on their sense of humour and their stoicism; their carefree ability to keep calm, carry on a...
21 Mar 2020

Twins

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Doublemint Twins Patricia and Cyb Barnstable pose on the cover of Playboy (March 1981) There is a persistent fascination with tw...
20 Mar 2020

Mama Weer All Carers Now (Something to Reflect Upon Whilst in Self-Isolation)

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On a rather schadenfreudenistic note, it has amused me to see how the coronavirus pandemic has obliged millions of people to essenti...
18 Mar 2020

The Bear Necessity: Reflections on the Case of Timothy Treadwell

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Promo image for Grizzly Man (2005) I. It's funny how life works out: one minute you're just an audition away from landing...
15 Mar 2020

Of Priests and Pornographers in the Age of Coronavirus

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It's interesting to note how, even in the middle of a global health crisis, we can rely on the superstitious and stubborn stupidi...