The Five Things Essay
An all-purpose writing prompt to help you find your voice, lose your voice, beat writer's block, or figure out what the hell you want to write about in the first…
Monty Dons American Southern Gardens
America’s southern gardens are beautiful, ambitious, and inseparable from the complex history that shaped them. Monty Don travels from Washington DC and Jefferson’s Monticello to Bunny Mellon’s Oak Spring, Charleston’s…
Women with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’
Women with the same medical condition as men are less likely to be offered treatment such as surgery, a stent or a strong painkiller, research has found. A review of…
An apartheid driving system
Palestine
The Self-Taught Writer: Crafting a Bespoke Education
On the book tour for my debut novel, the question I was asked at every event was why I did not give up—even as it took me seven years to…
Monty Dons American Gardens
Monty Don travels across America to uncover what makes its gardens so bold, wild, and surprising. From Missouri’s disappearing prairie and Chicago’s skyline garden to Longwood’s theatrical fountains, New York…
Philip Guston: the restless artist painting everyday evil
Philip Guston thought hard about the artist's responsibility to bear witness to ‘the brutality of the world‘. Consistently changing and reinventing, he sought to make work that embodies life’s complexities,…
Monty Don’s London And South East Garden Journey
Monty Don travels through London and the South East to uncover how gardens survive, adapt, and inspire in Britain’s busiest corner. From George Harrison’s magical Friar Park and Gertrude Jekyll’s…
It Could Happen Here: Sanctions, Terror, and the Internet
Margaret joins James to discuss a new round of sanctions against, among others, Autistici/Inventati and the internet infrastructure services they provided. {listen}
Monty Don Explores Britain’s Northern Wonders
Monty Don uncovers how gardens can survive neglect, conflict, climate pressure, and changing times. In this journey through the North and Northern Ireland, he visits ruined castles reborn as gardens,…