Guiding Red

I thought of the poet who had entered hospice, the way his mouth had finished its long job.

Pass the Sick Bag! Why I Published a Book on the Art of the Airline Essential

One evoked a hellish trip from Delhi after passengers had drunk unsanitary water. Another conjured up an era when planes were thick with cigarette smoke. And one man collected them all…

Atlantic Trivia: Wine

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Country diary: This ‘secret’ island takes me back to Swallows and Amazons

Horsey Island, Hamford Water, Essex: It’s the setting for one of Arthur Ransome’s wonderful books, and today it’s farmed by a single family with innovation and care

Why Are American Politicians So Old?

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Atlantic Trivia: Pizza

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I could listen to gardeners chat for hours. It always sounds like they’re up to no good

Blame my uncle and his contempt for rules and regulations

Did you solve it? Dotty data and silly sentences

The solutions to today’s puzzles – and the winner of the Anguish Languish contest

Atlantic Trivia: Pasta

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Man falls to his death during Madison Square Garden concert, police say

Officers find man, named as Paul Kueker, unconscious with injuries indicating a fall from an ‘elevated position’

Imperfect Ghazal on Weightless Living

A poem

Kindness of strangers: We were hurtling away on the wrong train with a baby in tow

This was 1983, so there was no Google Maps. All I could think to do was shout down the carriage, ‘Does anyone here speak English? We’re lost!’