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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
| Professor Barbara Taylor
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
| Kate SummerscaleTim Robinson
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
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Domestic titans
| Elvia WilkMichael Salu
Feeling trapped by the idea that an impenetrable carapace of space trash could surround the planet, Elvia Wilk turned to thoughts of the new worlds still to be revealed here on Earth.
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Sharing Nature: Alone
| Lalita Kaplish
Being alone in nature can be a contradictory experience of fear and freedom.
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“Life and the universe change our plans”
| Lil SullivanThomas S G Farnetti
Artist Lil Sullivan returns to the printmaking workshop for the first time after her stroke, and uses broken and discarded everyday objects to create art.