A Kind of Solution

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'To Change the World...
...we must first change the way babies are being born'
Sep 13 • 
Nick Thorpe
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August 2025

Above the Mosul dam
and inside a Bulgarian jail
Aug 30 • 
Nick Thorpe
11
1
Letters from my Garden (2)
and ruminations on the Hoopoe
Aug 17 • 
Nick Thorpe
13
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Letters from my garden (1)
thatched earth
Aug 12 • 
Nick Thorpe
17
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A Conversation in the Mountains
On Paul Celan, Osip Mandelstam, and Ivan Illich
Aug 3 • 
Nick Thorpe
10
1

July 2025

Nadia's Red Trousers
The poets of Gaza
Jul 27 • 
Nick Thorpe
10
1
The Other Tiger
Reflections on Jorge Luis Borges, Donald Trump and the 'Attention Economy'
Jul 18 • 
Nick Thorpe
6
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The Cross in the Cross-hairs
Syria, six months after...
Jul 13 • 
Daniel Thorpe
6
Of mules and men and women
More tall tales from the High Andes
Jul 6 • 
Nick Thorpe
17
Tales from the Periphery
an interview by Szabolcs Tóth
Jul 2 • 
Nick Thorpe
14

June 2025

The House is Black
On the Iranian poet and film-maker Forugh Farrokhzad
Jun 22 • 
Nick Thorpe
11
The Graz effect
on guns, grief and human goodness
Jun 13 • 
Nick Thorpe
10
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