Culture

As her world unravels, Pilar wonders at the ‘sacred geometry’ that gives it structure

20 minutes

Saved by Infinite Jest

Bereft and suicidal, I lay on my sofa. Only David Foster Wallace’s novel kept me tethered to life, and still does

Mala Chatterjee

A gentle soul in an oppressive land – Bonnie’s story of life in America

11 minutes

Flat places

Whenever I stand in a flat landscape, I feel myself becoming weightless, taken out of my childhood full of painful nothing

Noreen Masud

To the tune of dystonia

One day, my hand stopped speaking to my brain. As a doctor and flute player, I had to understand this strange affliction

Lynn Hallarman

The busboy who comforted Robert F Kennedy as he lay dying shares his story

3 minutes

A young autistic man’s heartfelt letter to the beloved mother he lost

12 minutes

The diaries of Kafka

By day an insurance official, by night he was an incessant, insomniacal scribe of the space between waking and dreaming

Ross Benjamin

My blackness

At times I’ve tried to escape it. Other times I’ve embraced it. But at all times, people have attempted to define me by it

Colin Grant

What Akiko saw at the centre of the Hiroshima blast, and the indelible mark it left

15 minutes

Can art in a swanky restaurant ever be transcendent? On Rothko’s Seagram Murals

15 minutes

At the movies with Pauline Kael – in the arthouse cinema where she got her start

19 minutes

Nick ponders the life of the mysterious girl whose used CDs shaped his teenage years

5 minutes