‘i’m afraid’

I don’t know my own birthday. My family and I fled Somalia when I was just a child, after my brother was killed by a stray grenade in the war. In the chaos of escape, my birth certificate and our fami

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Most poets have had the experience of being inspired by a painting, prompting them to write a new poem to narrate or comment on the picture. A Norfolk group goes one step further, engineering the matc

We can’t predict exactly how you’ll be feeling as the year comes to a close, but our best guess is that you’ll be in need of a breather. Because for many of us, 2025 has not been painless. Political t