Maggie O'Farrell Looks for Stories Hiding in Plain Sight
Her latest book, “The Marriage Portrait,” imagines the life of the girl who is thought to have inspired Robert Browning’s famous poem “My Last Duchess.”
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Her latest book, “The Marriage Portrait,” imagines the life of the girl who is thought to have inspired Robert Browning’s famous poem “My Last Duchess.”
The legacy and impacts of systemic racism and the climate crisis. A report by Greenpeace UK and the Runnymede Trust.
Now in its 27th year, the award celebrates the best small-budget, big-ambition architecture projects completed around the country with a contract value of
‘Covid-19 has an odour, and the dogs are detecting it’: meet the canine super-squad sniffing out the virus Sam Wollaston A single-storey building in a lonely rural business park, a few miles from Milton Keynes on a grey autumn day. It looks like a location for a bleak thriller: where a kidnap victim is held, perhaps, or the scene of a final shootout. Inside, though, something kind of cool is happening. In a brightly lit room, four inverted metal cups have been placed on the red carpet, each containing a small glass jar. One of these contains a smell: a “training odour”...