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Brian Fawcett learns about the gory details of life on the farm. Ch. 4 of “The Sussex Variations.”
Read MoreFrom the Archives: Twenty years ago, the U.S. invaded Iraq. Here’s what Dooney’s said two decades ago about the American imperial “punitive expedition,” as it rolled across Iraq.
Read MoreBrian Fawcett learns about males and females, both human and porcine, on a pig farm in Sussex, England in the early 1960s.
Read MoreVian Andrews hiking and thinking in the Umbrian countryside, amid olive groves in the rain and “sentieri” paths between mountain hamlets.
Read MoreBrian Fawcett’s “Sussex Variations, or Two Boars,” Ch. 2. People feel distress. So do pigs. Living and learning on an English farm.
Read MoreFrom the Archives: How to keep thinking and acting during and after the Apocalypse. Daniel Gawthrop has some practical suggestions.
Read MoreBrian Fawcett, age 18, from northern British Columbia, arrives at his uncle’s and aunt’s pig farm in Sussex, England, and comes-of-age as two 400-pound boars charge into battle.
Read MoreVian Andrews’ dispatches from the Umbrian countryside welcome the light and rage against its dying.
Read MoreDavid Shields’ 2010 manifesto, “Reality Hunger,” about the state of contemporary writing. Time for a second look.
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