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A symbol of a lost homeland
| Yasmeen Abdel MajeedJacqueline Reem Salloum
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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The stranger who started an epidemic
| Anna Faherty
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
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The yogi as hermit, warrior, criminal and showman
| Lalita Kaplish
How the modern world changed the life and reputation of the yogi.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
| Ken Hollings
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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- Long read
The ambivalence of air
| Daisy LafargeCarol Nazatto
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.