Experience: I’m the last traditional clog maker in England

I cut small trees around Offa’s Dyke, then shape the wood by hand

The Photographer Undoing the Myth of Appalachia

For Stacy Kranitz, replacing negative stereotypes with a triumphant counternarrative would be too easy.

The Fake Poor Bride

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You be the judge: should my best friend stop wearing the same perfume as me?

Marta wants her scent to be unique, but Elsa thinks copying her friend is just sharing the joy. Do you smell a rat?

Old Songs by Amy Jeffs and Gwen Burns review

These interconnected short stories of love and death, inspired by traditional ballads from the British Isles, are narrated with immediacy and warmth

Sardinia’s ancient masked rite of mamuthones and issohadores

From mid-January until the end of carnival, mamuthones and issohadores take to the streets of Mamoiada, in the mountainous heartland of Sardinia. This is a time when herders and farmers across the Mediterranean turn to the power of masks to cast off winter and foster the coming of spring