Fieldnotes from my father’s funeral
I’d reported on earthquakes, murders and suicide attacks. I was still unprepared to watch my dad die
by Salman Masood
Life stories
Hear directly from individuals about their highly personal journeys into meaning and self-understanding
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The end of a friendship cracked me apart, triggering hidden memories – and helping me heal old wounds
by Antonia Malchik
The barbarians are at the gates in this electric Laurie Anderson performance
Video by All Arts
A wool puppet’s stirring journey from safety into the great unknown
A film by Kobi Vogman
Beauty is woven into everyday life for the quilters of the American West
A film by Carly Jakins and Jared Jakins
A life-saving boredom
For years, I sought to escape my own mind. Once I became fascinated by it, getting high lost its allure
by Rafael Frumkin
The loving tongue
In Spanish, I wasn’t the clumsy son of the town amputee. Learning the language catalysed my reinvention
by Timothy Hampton
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The end of a friendship cracked me apart, triggering hidden memories – and helping me heal old wounds
by Antonia Malchik
The barbarians are at the gates in this electric Laurie Anderson performance
Video by All Arts
A wool puppet’s stirring journey from safety into the great unknown
A film by Kobi Vogman
After four decades in prison, Big D contemplates the brave new world that awaits him
A film by Laura Tejero Núñez
Exposure
Wracked with unknown fear, I’d never been able to sleep through the night. Then I went scuba diving
by Lindsay Lee Wallace
Mindie is a talented singer. She also doesn’t have legs. As a teen, it got complicated
A film by Megan Griffiths and Mindie Lind
Girl in the water
I’d saved someone from drowning. Had I done the right thing?
by James McConnachie
An Aboriginal painter depicts scenes from her youth in this beautiful short
A film by Grace Kemarre Robinya and Jonathan Daw
Love, shame and 325 bags of trash
In my mother’s hoarding house, I found something I wanted to keep
by Deborah Derrickson Kossmann
This sculptor finds deep weirdness – not divinity – in the human form
Directed by Ben Berman
Discarded
The end of a friendship cracked me apart, triggering hidden memories – and helping me heal old wounds
by Antonia Malchik
At 84, Jun lives to shock. His next act? A living funeral no one asked for
A film by Mari Young and Anika Kan Grevstad
The loving tongue
In Spanish, I wasn’t the clumsy son of the town amputee. Learning the language catalysed my reinvention
by Timothy Hampton
The birthday gift
In the Soviet Union, you’d never wish someone ‘S dnem rozhdeniya!’ without a proper present
by Margarita Gokun Silver
The barbarians are at the gates in this electric Laurie Anderson performance
Video by All Arts
Seeing myself in a rubble-pile asteroid
Exhausted and adrift, I felt just like Bennu: a heap of fragments of a world that could have existed
by Elizabeth Landau