CitiesFifty years since the Battle of the Bogside, some fear the new status of Derry’s murals as a tourist attraction will stop the community overcoming the past
One of the first things you see as you enter Bogside is a 20ft mural of a 12-year-old boy, wearing a gas mask and clutching a petrol bomb.
Painted on the side of a social housing property, it’s a stark reminder of the violence that tore Derry apart during the Troubles. Read More...
France This article is more than 3 years oldInterview'We should have the right not to like men': the French writer at centre of literary stormThis article is more than 3 years oldKim Willsher in ParisExclusive: Female and feminist voices aren’t always welcome among men, says Pauline Harmange, author of I Hate Men
When Pauline Harmange, a French writer and aspiring novelist, published a treatise on hating men, she expected it to sell at the most a couple of hundred copies among friends and readers of her blog. Read More...
Life and styleHair is considered a sacred part of the body in my tribe, and why Mom left me her hair, but I couldn’t give her anything
July marks one year since we buried my mother. She departed this world far too soon in February 2021 – she wasn’t even 62.
Several months after her passing, I found a plastic bag with her hair in it, along with a note she’d written in 2013, explaining that she left this lock – so soft and matted flat – for when she moved on to the other side. Read More...