Anyone who writes an essay has a point of view or a wandering line of thought and anyone who reads an essay takes delight in the written word

The historian

The historian

On the lifelong lessons of history | Issue 21 | 2022
What it is to be a Japanese woman

What it is to be a Japanese woman

There's more that could be said but this is all for now | Issue 21 | 2022
Science fiction

The essay

Nick Grandage on the place of the universe in the scheme of things | Issue 20 | 2022
ESSAYS

ESSAYS

In the time of pandemic | Issue 17 | 2020
Slow fashion

Slow fashion

Sustainable, ethical, slow | Issue 16 | 2019
Portfolio

Portfolio

Avant Garde, or, what does it mean to be Russian? | By Natalia Chudakova | Issue 8 | 2015
MAGNA CARTA

Magna Carta

Sealed in 1215 | Issue 7 | 2014
Gold

Gold

All that glisters is not gold | An essay by Alexandra Howe | Issue 2 | 2012
Tales of dementia

Tales of dementia

Breaking an old taboo | Issue 3 | 2012
Water

Water

Waste not : want not | An essay by Nigel Gibson | Issue 1 | 2011


In RE

old shoes, old jeans, tired pavement

Style

James Reid. Sacha de Klerk. Nicola Liu. Andrew Robinson. On the subject of shoes.| Issue 20 | 2022

Woman in empty room

Slow fashion

Sustainable, ethical, slow | Issue 16 | 2019

W H Auden with Christopher Isherwood at Victoria station in 1938

W H Auden

Alexandra Howe on Auden and suffering | Issue 13 | 2018

the poet T S Eliot

T S Eliot

Alexandra Howe on Eliot and how to read poetry | Issue 11 | 2017

Ethiopia

Ethiopia

A portrait in words | Issue 8 | 2015

Stringers

Stringers

Reports from our global correspondents on life under the headlines

Calnan

Calnan on jurisprudence

Essays on jurisprudence from an English law perspective

Trinity College Dublin library

The historian

Past, present, future

Man sitting beside the doorway

Photo essays

Barely a word