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The Essay is an Irresistible Form

Author: Stephen Habberley

Illustration: Siobhan Clay

"The essay is an irresistible form: the one chance the dead get to speak to us." Gore Vidal, still very much alive, was in Brighton to talk to Andrew Marr >>>

Cometh the “A list” Revolution?

Author: By Jon McClure

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Celebrities – occupying various positions on the scale of idolatry – are without doubt the all-powerful übermensch of our times. A new super-bourgeoisie, whose lifestyles, fashion changes and personal >>>


Exclusive: Noam Chomsky - The Most Wanted List

Author: Noam Chomsky

Illustration: Fumie Kamijo

On February 13, Imad Moughniyeh, a senior commander of Hizbollah, was assassinated in Damascus. "The world is a better place without this man in it," State Department spokesperson Sean >>>


Sonnet of Ninus

Author: Zoe Richards

Sonnet of Ninus

In love, she was much younger than he was. Pretty, a nymph disguised, but not a child. Thisbe never needed, felt any loss. Her face was fresh, eyes wide and nothing styled. It >>>


Frisbeetarianism and a whole other load of issues

Author: Kate Kayuda

Frisbeetarianism and a whole other load of issues

Frisbeetarianism is a religion of unclear origins. The basic principle of it is that when you die, your soul goes up on a roof and you cannot get it >>>


Black

Author: Tahani Sharif

Black

My eyes moved to the other side of the street. It was March. My hair was drenched and the pavements were as slippery as ice. The yellowing oak trees >>>


Brown's Addiction

Author: Dean Stalham

Illustration: Dean Stalham

Let’s talk business. The Heroin business. A part of it any way; a killer that takes lives indiscriminately and without prejudice. I haven’t trawled through the internet and searched >>>


The House with the Fish Pond (After Charles Bukowski)

Author: Valeria Melchioretto

Illustration: Rachel Gannon

How alive was the man with the dangerous eyes
Who stayed in the house with the fish pond? Or was he ever allowed to live that dodgy life
Part of >>>


Media Ownership in the UK By John Harris

Author: John Harris

Illustration by Abdul Hamid

Not so long ago, I wrote an article for the Guardian's Weekend magazine about Andy Coulson, the ex-editor of The News Of The World who now spends his working >>>


A new poem from Jemma Borg

Author: Jemma Borg

Illustration by Rachael Gannon

from The places of our absence 1. Beijing In the beginning, there was light, the white shades
of buildings, the flag two colours of grey
and the pavements alabaster. Then the >>>


Film Director Nick Broomfield writes exclusively for RealFits

Author: Nick Broomfield

Abu Ghraib and the Haditha massacre of 2005 will be remembered as the most haunting, symbolic events of the Iraq War, just as My Lai is for Vietnam. In >>>


The Visual Journal: on Secondhand Daylight

Author: Simon Aeppli

Follow the timecode of Secondhand Daylight on the video-link below:
(hours: minutes: seconds: frames) (00:00:43:22) The writer William Gibson refers to videotape as having the quality of second >>>


It’s the numbers that count: how statistics make ourselves and our world.

Author: Steve Habberley

Emerging from Pimlico underground station, skirting Victorian-terraced Bessborough street, with its white-stuccoed columns planted steadfastly akimbo, making their stand against the creeping shadows from the glass and steel of >>>


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