Tim Abrahams

Turn Up for the Books

After lockdown lifted, our writer spent three years in search of the perfect book club, only to find that no two readers are ever on the same page.
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

Mind Invaders

Kidnapping. Boxing. Three-sided football. The art terrorists attack! A thoughtful dérive around the skewed contours of the London Psychogeographical Association.
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Big in Japan

You wouldn’t have met their fans, they go to a different school. In Canada.
Alex Taylor

I Write Eulogies, Not Tragedies

After his nan died, this writer discovered an unusual line of part-time student work: peddling paeans from his dorm room, for strangers who couldn’t find the right words of their own.
Peter Carlyon

A Shark Tale

Russell Gray is a redoubtable property developer, who has, among other projects, remade Bermondsey. He is also a self-styled anarchist and an arts patron. What keeps him going?
Nick Thompson

Diamonds in the Rough

Rogues Gallery is an initiative bringing art to inmates. We sent our writer to hang out with the set of creative crims behind the whole enterprise.

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Louis Staples

Ersatz G.B.

How do Lidl and Aldi get away with their imitation brands? We unpick the Cuthbert & Colin caterpillar wars.
David Whitehouse

Hold the Phone

On 11 September, 2001, a nurse was texting saucy messages to thousands of strangers across the country. But the nurse was really a 21-year-old man, bored in an office in London. We hear his story.
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