Year: 2022

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Long-haulers and Loafers

French signageT The bean man brought his beans to market every weekend – week after week, year after year, decade after decade – until one morning he was found dead at his house. He was 86 and just beginning to talk of retirement. He was, Ann Finkbeiner says, one of...

Patient, Skilled, Peaceful, Goal-Oriented

Patient, Skilled, Peaceful, Goal-Oriented

OOdd monuments of Westminster Abbey:The abbey held writers to a higher moral standard than the rich. Stanley cheered that Aphra Behn, writer and all-round hussy, hadn’t managed to get closer to Poets’ Corner than ‘beyond the east Cloister’. (Her stone carries one of...