ISIS Lit: I dream of sharks again
From our fiction competition: 'I dream of sharks again' by Laura Theis
In conversation with Peter Snow
Journalist-historian Peter Snow reflects on the White House’s burns and his own battlefield experiences
Viral Protest: online reaction to Malala Yousafzai and Berkin Elvan
Malala’s case demonstrates how powerful youth protest can still be as a symbol transmitted across the world
Motown to Ghost Town: Detroit’s Urban Decay
Detroit is Motown, the birthplace of the hits that changed America and with it the world. But it’s also a ghost town, around its broken centre of clustered skyscrapers and Tigers stadium
NOTES FROM THE GROUND: DISPATCH #2, G&D’s
One imagines that the "little children" Jesus welcomed in Matthew 10 came clutching one scoop tubs of G&D's "Dime Bar Crunch"
Rare Phenomenons: An Interview With Eleanor Hardwick
Atmospheric photography, original set design, the scent of thunderstorms and eclectic costuming all form part of Eleanor Hardwick's experimental-electro-ambient pop music duo 'Moonbow'
Notes from the Ground: Dispatch #1, The Missing Bean
If the coffee weren't the Platonic form of all caffeinated drinks, the Bean's purpose would be primarily symbolic.
The Incredulity of St Thomas: icon and iconography
'Thomas is the archetypal skeptic... there is something absurd, then, in the notion of him having his request answered so literally, and of such an answer prompting real belief'