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Interview with Alain de Botton

Are your own personal thoughts and feelings inspiration for a new book? Or do you look to the wider world? I start with myself, and look at what bothers and delights me. I then work out from myself, but the starting...

Winning Words - Watch This Space

I’m not sporty. Omming in yoga is about as cardiovascular as I get. So sometimes it frustrates me that sports is given such a ‘national treasure’ status. To me, what we’re best at is the arts....
Selling God
Back by popular demand! John Lucas' last story, Being Marc Almond, had you writing in in droves, asking for more information...
In Conversation with Nadeem Aslam
Granta’s latest issue celebrates new writing from Pakistan. We met Nadeem Aslam - Season of the Rainbirds, Maps for Lost...



Haiku Review – Thin Ice
Our latest Haiku Review was sent in from Seattle writer Jon Parry, written whilst he was watching the US news. experience...
Intertwined – Human Rights, Culture and the ‘Me’ Generation
Human rights are a right, right? But where does this sit with the current 'me' generation, as one person's 'right' is another's...



Granta – Pakistan POP!
Granta is the go-to magazine for bold new writing as well as art, photography and literature -inspired events. The latest...
Becoming Marc Almond
When I first became Marc Almond, I wore my hair like black candyfloss, and it was OK because my face was slender and pale...



The Beautiful Sin
 She went to take a photo on her phone the other day for her Facebook page, when everything started going a little bit Dorian Gray. She looked at the screen and it was blank behind her some dude in black is doing a devil skank and he says to her: Why don’t you lean a bit closer why don’t you open eyes wider and see? She does. And in a blink...
Culture Shock – Psychological Torture Becomes Reality
Recent years have seen reality television push the envelope further and further to keep the genre fresh, exciting, and appealing...



Culture Shock – Scandal, Privacy, Media Power and the Story of John Terry
The biggest celebrity news story of the year so far has been seriously hard to ignore. Chelsea and now former England captain...
Spoken Ink, Midwinter Stories In The Royal Parks
 This Christmas in Hyde Park Spoken Ink presents an Agony in Eight Fits, A Hungry Walrus and a Cheshire cat dancing to the tune of a lute. Nestle into warm furs for another peculiar weekend of twenty-first century storytelling. Only a Boojum would miss out on a Lewis Carroll Christmas. Children welcome. Get a free Bloody Mary when you mention Open Magazine. Tickets:...

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