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Locked Down in a Scottish Bookshop

by Shaun Bythell

Bookseller Shaun Bythell can be famously curmudgeonly about his customers. But while reflecting on his shop’s second lockdown, he’s discovered something surprising. The owner of The Bookshop, the largest second-hand bookshop in... Read More

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Screw Cancer and the Sugar It Rode In On

by Matt Sutherland

My father died of cancer at 53. My mother barely survived breast cancer at 45. And like a dutiful son, I caught the cancer bug last year at 53—stage 4 throat cancer—it’s a family thing. Lots and lots of families. One hundred years... Read More

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