This inch-thick, square box was familiar from my childhood: the sturdy, waxy cardboard, its paper cover glued onto the top of the album set like a fifth-grader’s découpage. I used to open these boxes like gifts, lifting off the lid to reveal the...
Author - Carole Burns
This Extraordinary Ordinary: Rainbows Arch Over Britains’s Covid-19 Crisis
Outside, the sound of clapping. Paul and I rushed out to our front garden, astonished. From doorways, at the end of walkways, from second-floor windows, our neighbors were banging on pots, clapping their hands, woo-wooing the National Health Service...
Wanted: An End to Austerity — A New UK Citizen Canvasses for the Labour Party
We were just leafletting. Even that felt good. It was cold but bright as we stepped into the first day of December, with Christmas wreaths adorning thresholds, doors wrapped like presents. A man on a ladder was hanging a Santa formed out of lights...
Listening in a Post-Brexit (Post-Election) World
John Berger died on January 2 at age 90. An art critic, novelist, and left-leaning thinker, he’s loved by me also for Photocopies, a book of short portraits that are like sketches in words: informal, partial, seemingly off-hand. In the...