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Spectre of Consequence

From headlines that have appeared in the British magazine The Spectator since January. Confessions of a Fortysomething Brace Face I’m Proud I Squandered My Wealth My Life of Genteel Poverty…

Keeping Up with the Johnsons

by Lara Prendergast,

Boris and Carrie spiff up Downing Street

Late Edition

by Heinrich von Kleist,Translated by Matthew Spencer,

From Anecdotes, a collection of vignettes that originally appeared in Kleist’s newspaper Berliner Abendblätter, which began publication in 1810. Kleist took his own life the following year. The collection will…

Out of Africa

by Oscar Schwartz,

The legacy of colonialism threatens the future of genetic research

The Fountain Pen

by Lore Groszmann Segal,

From the journal I did not keep

At Last

by Olivier Kugler,

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From a test given to applicants for the position of emoji translator at Today Translations, a language company based in London. The job description, which was posted in December, asks…

City of Gilt

by Tanya Gold,

Searching for the town I used to love

So Subtle a Catch

by Simon Parkin,

The illicit attraction of the lowly carp

No More Me

by Jenny Diski,

By Jenny Diski, from her Twitter feed. Diski, a contributor to Harper’s Magazine, was the author of ten novels and eight works of non-fiction, including In Gratitude, a memoir about…

Fighting Chance

by Samuel James,

Photographs from the English Premier League