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New Generation Thinkers: Colonial Papers
Alexandra Reza's Essay considers the Gilet Noirs, Ousmane Semb猫ne, and Nathalie Quintane
New Generation Thinkers: Battlefield Finds
Seren Griffiths tells the story of the soldier turned archaeologist Francis Buckley.
New Generation Thinkers: The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far
Xine Yao suggests that a poker Chinese face can be a good way of fighting back
New Generation Thinkers: Hoarding or Collecting?
Diarmuid Hester muses on the thin line between inspiration and a compulsive disorder.
Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future
Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar, Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.
New Generation Thinkers: A social history of soup
Tom Scott-Smith uses four recipes to track social reforms and changes in what we value.
New Thinking: Shakespeare's Life Lessons
Scholars Emma Smith, Patrick Gray, and Emma Whipday find examples in different dramas
The Essay New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress
Sophie Oliver on motherhood, a old dress and rereading Wide Sargasso Sea
Maryse Cond茅's writing plus Suzanne O'Sullivan
Shahida Bari reads I Tituba, the story of the West Indian slave accused in Salem.
New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire
Christienna Fryar looks at Caribbean fires and earthquakes and lessons for rebuilding now