Through these five stanzas, the reader is invited to take a sidelong glance at truth and consider what it is that we might know or not know, and what that might mean for our interactions. Shapes folded in calico, embroidered in thread, are manipulated by [Anushka’s] words, building in complimentary abstraction.

A true story about an intergenerational love of cricket.

The putputput of the boys tapping the bat into the earth while waiting for the ball was part of the soundscape of the street for as long as the neighbourhood could remember… Only at 2pm was it safe to walk past without risking a ball to the head, when the sun shone its hardest onto the earth and even the matted fur of the tennis ball appeared to sweat.

My friend shares what makes her style so unique, from growing up cycling around Copenhagen to sewing her own clothes made from second-hand materials.

As young as 5 years old, my friend Josefine Madsen already had a strong sense of what she liked and did not like to wear. Stricken by the fierce injustice of pairing those tights with that top, Josefine’s cries would resound through her family home in Denmark as her mother tried to wrangle her into an outfit - any outfit - for school.

Hot off the bench! A series of accidental meetings in my local sauna, sharing the heat with people in ways that were often surprisingly intimate.

We’re in the tiny, box-like sauna belonging to our local leisure complex, accessible only to those who rent or own property nearby. The leisure complex has a strange sense of half-community… We are all going about our own lives but we are doing so alongside each other.

As a speaker of several Asian languages, a historian, and a curator with a global career spanning roles at world-renowned institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Smithsonian, Thomas Wide is certainly not indifferent to difference.

Wide travelled to Washington D.C. every few months to bring Afghan art to the American capital… “I saw, multiple times, people having really surprising experiences… I felt like we had the chance to change people’s minds.”

With my parents having recently put their house on the market, announcing plans to move out of Nottinghamshire altogether, I’ve been thinking a lot about my childhood home and the hours my brother and I used to while away in the garden.

Sometimes, when I lingered by the window to enjoy the golden light straying along the lawn, my eyes fell upon the raw stump, settling on the emptiness where the tree had been, the tree game a distant memory.

I speak with the viral indie pop artist about his new and addictive “unlikely mash-ups”, celebrating an era of Facebook swag, and the simultaneous appeal and loneliness of cities like London and New York.

“I’m hoping that rather than trying to slot into an existing genre or type of music, the fans I accumulate are exclusively people who are interested in the experiment.”

My friend Caroline and I find ourselves caught in an unexpected snowstorm after manifesting a weekend of snow in Edinburgh — only one out of a strange list of birthday coincidences.

Caroline buys postcards to send home and writes them as we wait at the station: ‘Det had snöat (!!) och varit så stämningsfullt här uppe’, which she translates to ‘it snowed and it was feelingful’.

Fruit versus what? No, fruit verses! A succulent selection of poems on fruit, as an ode to late summer.

This summer has been a particularly fruit-filled (fruitful?) one for me. One of my friends from school moved into my house in London, and we’ve had the joy of reconnecting with each other. She loves fruit, and I have found myself becoming influenced.

One of the co-founders of GANNI, a Danish brand on the TIME100 Most Influential Companies, lauded for its ‘eco-conscious fashion’, does not call GANNI a sustainable business: he calls it responsible. This review of The GANNI Playbook — a guide to those looking to set up responsible businesses — examines GANNI’s approach to navigating sustainability as a popular fashion brand.

My friend Victoria Reeser shares lessons she has learnt through her personal search for purpose, a journey that has taken her from home-schooling in Philadelphia to graduate school in the UK and discovering a passion for painting.

What am I doing? What should I do in the interim period between being where I am (point A) and where I might want to be (point B)? And what if I don’t know exactly what point B consists of, or whether, how, and when it might be achieved?

On what being a true friend might look like, and on readers being in friendship with writers.

Sometimes we are ineloquent. Sometimes we fail to elucidate what we mean. Sometimes we blatantly misspeak, or through fear of misspeaking do not speak at all. But when you do speak, a true friend sees through the stuttering, the awkwardness, the bluster and the confusion, and takes you as you are.

A delve into the latest trend taking over an online community of fashion-loving knitters and creatives: creating little accessories to jazz up buttons on shirts, skirts, jackets, or anything else. Tanoshi is a Japanese word meaning fun, enjoyable, or delightful, and making the pieces for the fun of it is the principle at the heart of #tanoshitanoshi.