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Natural Justice

by Rosa Lyster, Will Stephenson,

Rosa Lyster on tree-related literature, trial reportage, and forensic botany

If a Tree Falls

by Rosa Lyster,

The trial of the Sycamore Gap killers

A Change of Tune

by Veronique Greenwood,

A revolution in English bell ringing

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