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Finding My City in a Hampstead Charity Shop

The best charity shop finds are when you walk out with a book that fits so perfectly into your current life context that it feels like someone planted it there on purpose.

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Lifestyle as Spectacle in With Love, Meghan

I watched the first episode of With Love, Meghan and I can’t stay silent. Because Meghan Markle has carefully crafted herself into a pop culture character. Literally.

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Trust by Hernan Diaz: Who Owns the Story?

Swallowed (there’s no other way to put it) Trust by Hernan Diaz – his second novel, now Pulitzer-winning.

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I finally understood Bridget Jones

For years, I thought Bridget was ridiculous. And yet, here I am.

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Environmental Racism and the Legacy of Empire

Last year Wellcome Collection was hosting Hard Graft, a powerful exhibition exploring labor—often invisible, undervalued, yet essential.

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Freud Museum: a place of sublimated things

I finally made it to the Freud Museum.

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I watched Emilia Pérez and still wonder: why is it a musical?

I watched Emilia Pérez and spent a long time wondering: did I actually like it?

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In Writing by Hattie Crisell

In Writing by Hattie Crisell is a thoughtful dive into the routines, challenges, and insights of writers at work.