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Thread of hilarious maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵 1. World map according to fish

Absolutely one of the best books of contemporary fiction I’ve ever read. It lives inside me … still after decades.

I need to know what happened here in 1620.

James Baldwin Response to “Why must you always concentrate on color?”

“But this finished copy stands for what opportunities trauma may offer. Literature converts suffering into art..”. Inspired Hanif Kureishi

really looking forward to seeing this.

My seven-year-old asked for a dictionary this week. We went to the bookshop today to buy one. She walked home hugging it, pausing every so often to look up a word, grinning as though she had been given a book of spells, the key to wonders.

Joseph Campbell, goddamn

Letter from today’s Times

Baking day. Now about to enter the eating stage with 16 year old son.

Instead of “once upon a time,” Korean folk and fairy tales often begin with 호랑이 담배 피우던 시절에. It means “back when tigers smoked (pipes)”

I clearly wasn’t the only one gobsmacked to see Justin Welby there. Well said, Ian Hislop.

I eagerly read William Dalrymple's The Golden Road soon after it came out. There were, however, many serious gaps in its arguments, outlined here. I urge readers to be aware of them as they read this important book. Now about "Whatsapp history".... theindiaforum.in/book-reviews/i…

"That's an outrageous lie by Israel." The ICC arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu is "not anti-Semitic", says leading human rights lawyer and former UN war crimes judge Geoffrey Robertson KC.

“That’s when they suspended the constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t any rioting in the streets. People stayed home, watching their televisions, looking for direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put a finger on.” - Margaret Atwood, Handmaids Tale

child pram and toys come to mind… except Trump’s hurling hand grenades into other people’s lives.

Darn… always on the wrong continent! Can we zoom in from north London?

"In 1827, a British soldier named James Lewis deserted the East India Company, changed his name to Charles Masson, and disappeared into the vast expanse of Afghanistan and Punjab. What happened next would change history. While evading capture, Masson discovered the ruins of

Just add wig and funny stick Dr. Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS 🇺🇦