The Door ♫
media / Audio
About 10 years ago, a door appeared behind the church’s side altar. We don’t know what happened behind that door, but we do know that it was life-changing. A short story set in the Polish countryside. Original publication by Magda Kiełbowicz. Read by Mark Ordon.
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short story
The Door
Reading / literature
About 10 years ago, a door appeared behind the church’s side altar. We don’t know what happened behind that door, but we do know that it was life-changing. A short story set in the Polish countryside.
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Simple Answers Don’t Exist
Simple Answers Don’t Exist
An Interview with Carl Zimmer
Magazine / science
Popular science writer Carl Zimmer talks about the multitude of ways in which we can define life and death, and what this means for us.
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The Last Road of the Immortal Woman
Media / Photo
“The Last Road of the Immortal Woman” is where Henrietta Lacks is no longer alive, but not yet immortal. A liminal space separating mortality and immortality, the scientific and the emotional, the political and the personal, the metaphysical and the empirical, exploitation and recognition.
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We’re Living in a Beautiful World
We’re Living in a Beautiful World
An Interview with Jáchym Topol
Reading / society
Czech writer Jáchym Topol talks about growing up around Shakespeare, the difference between Czechs and Poles, and the follies of chasing the West.