The Monthly Essays
Small stages and curious kids are both occupational hazards
I never thought I’d become a professional whip-cracker. And when I did, the difficulties that arose were certainly not ones I had anticipated.
It’s not that easy, for instance, to find somewhere to practise. Circus-training warehouses are full of gorgeous aerialists overstretching to Adele, gaggles of seven-year-
Ten years after the Eagles’ 2006 premiership, a culture is laid bare
The notorious island has been a site of incarceration, occupation and, now, “extreme gardening”
