The novel opens with les boat-people, a belittling term under which Vietnamese fleeing from occupied/liberated (depending on whom you are speaking to) Saigon became known to the world. We meet Bon and our Sympathizer right where we left them – making their way to France from a communist reeducation camp. You don’t have to read the first book to start this one (although why wouldn’t you?), a comprehensive brief is provided.
As we enter our 11th month of the world on pause- we begin to wonder what we are for? ARE we the fat of society or something important…
Welcome back to your life as you never knew it. Welcome back to the 2020s. Welcome to the new year.
From jobbing actor, to unforgettable comedy Dad, to one of television’s most iconic characters. Currently lighting up the London stage in Network at the National Theatre, for our second Londnr Artist of the Month we tip our hats to outstanding actor… Bryan Cranston…
As more Facebook users die out, questions of what to do with one’s digital remains become ever more pressing.
Photos have the ability to snap you back to a fixed moment in time. They place you squarely in the past, leaving you to reminisce on how things used to be. Memories run like an open faucet and you find yourself recalling a simple family outing two years ago…
Were you to look towards the Barbican; post-war apartment complex, performing arts centre and site of the hanging gardens of the new world, one would…
I can go upward, I can float, the limit is the same to the mud but a hundred yards up is enough to see the city through the trees and it is not dark but it is night and of course it is not light …
Under Chancery House on Chancery Lane; down in the world famous London Silver Vaults is a veritable dragon’s keep of silver wares…
So what product, opportunity and future self is being sold to the viewer by the image above of a flat in London’s exclusive Nine Elms development? And is this future really something to be envious of?
Gentrification, and its associations with the so-called ‘flat-white economy,’ hipsterism, cold-pressed juices and shabby chic interiors has firmly secured..
Despite all her hopes, London wasn’t able to save her. But little spectres of those hopes, as well as her glittering triumphs, still linger over the locations which bore witness to Judy Garland’s final act…
Behind the scenes of V&A’s vast collections, the ones hidden from exhibitions and audiences, secreted in storage, I found a particularly curious object…
