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Late Aug – Early Sept 2024: First Impressions of New York
The Move In (23 Aug 2024, 26C 79F and sunny) Seven minutes is all it takes to walk from my apartment to Harlem, waylaid slightly by my confusion over whether the red lights here are actually respected. Or have I always been in Harlem? The morning’s taxi takes me from JFK airport to Morningside Heights,…
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A Note from a Reader (Weekly Update: 17 Apr to 23 Apr)
A great hello to all those who glow (and, most of all, those who glow but only dimly)! The observant reader of this blog would have very quickly identified the shift in diction in this post, and they would be absolutely right to see so. I am not, in fact, Ernest; but a secret other.…
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Hold on, the statue’s buffering: Virtual museums for a post-physical world
A shorter version of this article was first published with the Oxford Student. A submission of this essay won Trinity College’s Margaret Howard Prize (2020). It was a pleasant sunny afternoon in Bilbao on the day I paid a visit to the Guggenheim. I’d been planning for my trip to Spain three months prior, and it…
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Islam in Britain
On a rainy Friday I found myself in Woking, Surrey. Surrounded by a good number of grad students entrepreneurial enough to sign themselves up on a faculty-funded field trip, we first visited the Shah Jahan Mosque, and then the Muslim section of Brookwood Cemetery. The history of British Islam is fascinating but oft-overlooked (even by…