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Sep 13, 2026
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Aug 15, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Helen Pletts

    The Truth Dentist will see you now (Part 2) | IT (opens the original)

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    In Heathcote Williams’ early works you can usually find Jesus…but it’s unlikely to be the Jesus you were looking for. The Speakers, Heathcote’s first book, is a wily autofiction and the character named “Cafferty” immerses himself in the society of Hyde Park’s Speakers Corner in the 1960s. The Park’s habitués that he portrays include the unclassifiably deranged, the fanatical, the logorrheic and the frequently drug-fuddled. In the background, a chorus of transvestive “West End queers” with sobriq

  2. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Helen Pletts

    “Oh, the weather outside is frightful….” | IT (opens the original)

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    Last night I dreamt I went to Bethlehem again, it said. A rough spectre at the head of an empty table talking to itself. As usual, the same this year as last, alone, moaning about finding the inn Closed up, the stable ruined and full of shit. It had climbed a gutted tower block to Admire its empire of vast unfeeling, pockets of the mediocre affluent, Occasional vivid punctures of fanaticism, and, contented with an art subsidised by hospitals And flophouses, put down its emptied sacks of useless

  3. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Helen Pletts

    inscrutable presence | IT (opens the original)

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    Tonight is howling wilderness Not because of dogs barking But night refuses to yield to time Perpetuating endlessly But you say every night is like this This hill town knows when it is in slumber Or when night becomes clamorous In silence I pick up threads one by one To examine night’s riveting madness Suddenly a drunk howls; As a child,I would often listen to tapping Of doors, these carry into relentless Memories. Night is the time when the hill town takes a breather from the day’s Ananya S Guh

  4. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Helen Pletts

    The magmatic theoretical foundations of late modernism | IT (opens the original)

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    Late-modernism must combat the tyranny of literary criticism, the tyranny of editors, and the tyranny of editorial staffs. No literary critic, anywhere in the world, has managed to provide a meaningful interpretation to my riot text, “Have you lost your tongue?” Ultimately, the artist’s authentic (“objective”) interpretation had to intervene, a higher level than any “subjective” interpretation by the octogenarian literary critic, who hasn’t realized, in 2025, that literary criticism has undergon

  5. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Helen Pletts

    Joy Farren | IT (opens the original)

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    In Britain today, we face a number of profound challenges, amongst them the very real and immediate threats of climate change and the fear that extremism and violence imperil our democracy. The striking thing (which may feel either reassuring or depressing) is that none of these dangers are especially new. Activists have been warning us about the impacts of pollution and environmental degradation since the late 1960s; we’ve been grappling with the meaning of Britishness for just as long. In fact

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