Essays

In this collection of essays on the work of, and conversations with, John Berger, thirty-seven of his friends, artistic collaborators and followers...

Arthur Miller was not only one of America's most important twentieth-century playwrights, but he was also one of its most influential literary, cul...

'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revoluti...

Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic e...

Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another ...

Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is al...

Smokers, survivalists, teenagers, collectors… The cigarette lighter is a charged, complex, yet often entirely disposable object that moves across t...

No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking the pa...

Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, is an extraordinary indicator of economic and social standing, political orientation, religious aff...

We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in o...

Where does a password end and an identity begin? A person might be more than his chosen ten-character combination, but does a bank know that? Or an...

The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there,...

"What is Singapore’s Next Big Thing?" An intellectual salvo from young and passionate Singaporeans inhabiting different slices of Singapore society...