Robbie Armstrong

Catman Scoop

Few local legends tip so deeply into folk horror like the Catman of Greenock; as we uncover, the matters behind the myth are far more engrossing than any blurry snatch of video.
Harvey James

The WeHo Siege

What's it like to live among the beautiful people? Juvenile, chaotic, and as it turns out, bizarrely dangerous, as this LA dispatch demonstrates.
Fiona Mozley

Ghost ‘n’ the Machine

When you open up the spirit realm, you can't control who wanders in. Sometimes – just sometimes – the ghost of Oscar Wilde will give you career advice.
The Fence

Seven Ages of Cool

What defines the amorphous idea of ‘coolness’ in each age of life? If you are cool too early in life, can you recapture that golden era? What is the optimum age to be considered the apex of cool?
Ed Cumming

Lunch for The Fence

How often do you have to file in order to be called a regular columnist? As this story proved, the answer is 'two years', as our free lunch editor returns for his second bite at the cadging cherry.
Ian Martin

But to Be Young

Coming of age is different for every generation – but it might've reached its apex in the sepia-tinted Seventies, when free love and naff rock still reigned supreme.
Rosie Hewitson

You’re the One, Ellie Roebuck

Ever slide-tackled an ex? We take a look at the the scintillating dyke drama undergirding the entirety of women’s football.
Geoff Dyer

Failure to Turn

The majordomo of literary non-fiction meditates upon his mortality, his ear hair, and his complicated feelings toward the oeuvre of Luca Guadagnino.
Hussein Kesvani

Dog Day Afternoon

The terrains of our teenage years can be strewn with all sorts; for one Kentish boy, it was dildos, condom wrappers and tyre tracks, courtesy of the local dogging community.
Nesrine Malik

Elder States, Man

To spend your life online is to live at one remove from reality – stand back too far, and you might find the years speeding by before your eyes.