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‘How do you think you are you different since it happened,’ I asked the woman who cuts my hair. In two ways, she said. The first way she was different amounts to realising that treating people well is as good for you as it is for others. Then she told me the second way she had changed since The Big Thing happened to her family a year ago. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r6jj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack
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When I was a child, one of our neighbours used to give me a book every Christmas. One day she asked, ‘Umbertino, do you read to find out what happens in the book, or for the love of reading?’ And I had to admit that I wasn’t always particularly fascinated by what I was reading. I was reading for the love of it; anything would do. That was a big childhood revelation.Umberto Eco from This is Not the End of the BookThe year my marriage fell apart, I didn’t read a single book for six months. Not one
In the field – radical journalism, radically done (opens the original)
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Leonie Joubert sold her home two years ago and became nomadic. She travels around South Africa, writing stories about how climate collapse is affecting lives and landscapes. She is a science and environmental writer. I first interviewed her two years ago as she was about to embark, and then again this week. The first part of this interview ends with her explaining that her itinerant lifestyle has intensified her writing process. ‘The
Pushed to the limits (opens the original)
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Imagine being a solidly middle-class professional on the brink of financial ruin, not because you don’t know how to run your life, but because the world has changed so much, it no longer cares about your skills.In 2024, the acclaimed and multi-prize-winning science and environmental writer Leonie Joubert made a radical decision: she sold her only asset – her home – to live in a van. I interviewed her on the eve of her departure from conventional middle-class life. This week, almost two years lat
Old caves and broken bones (opens the original)
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There are four hours between checking out of our bed and breakfast in Kaapschehoop and checking into our cabin in Sabie. The weather is mild and the Mpumalanga countryside – what we can see of it from the N4 – is sprouting green below the retreating winter beige of the Highveld we recently left behind us. The light is spring-like and benign.‘Oh, look! The Sudwala Caves. Should we go and see what’s there?’‘We’ve been there before. When Ollie was little, remember? There’s a dinosaur park.’I rememb
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