The Machine, the Leather, the Skin Computational designer and tattoo artist Assaad Awwad on the body as archive, the materials he hasn't yet mastered, and why his most personal piece will never be seen.
She Waited. That Was the Whole of It. Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion is not a love story. It is a forensic account of a woman who has reorganised her life around waiting — and what that waiting costs her.
The Woman Who Drew the Map A review of Janet Wallach's Desert Queen — the biography of Gertrude Bell, the woman who helped draw the borders of modern Iraq and was ignored for understanding them too well.
Simplicity Is Not Simple A profile of Gert De Mangeleer and Hertog Jan at Botanic Sanctuary — on discipline, Belgian fine dining, and the hidden labour behind apparent simplicity.