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David Shields

David Shields is the author of fifteen books, including Reality Hunger and, most recently in the UK, How Literature Saved My Life (Notting Hill Editions).



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I Can’t Stop Thinking Through What Other People Are Thinking

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November 2013

David Shields

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November 2013

Originally, feathers evolved to retain heat; later, they were repurposed for a means of flight. No one ever accuses the descendants of ancient birds...

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August 2013

How to Be an American

Will Heinrich

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August 2013

Begin with a man on the beach. The sea is strangely iridescent, lighter in its lights and blacker in...

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April 2015

How things are falling.

David Isaacs

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April 2015

i.   Oyster cards were first issued to members of the British public in July 2003; by June 2015...

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November 2011

The nobility of confusion: occupying the imagination

Drew Lyness

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November 2011

The Oakland Police Officers Association in California said something clever recently: ‘As your police officers, we are confused.’ It...

 

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