Editorial: Rot
byEditor Julia Cavicchi introduces Rot, a section of The Learned Pig exploring multispecies creativity through modest tales of collaboration and coexistence.
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Holding Hands with the Land
byThey mix, knead, pour, roll, and pinch off hidden tastes. They leave streaks of butter on my glasses or fingerprints of flour on my…
The Night Horse and the Holy Baboon
byVictoria Rance and I met at Newcastle University in 1980. We were studying Fine Art and English Literature respectively and have remained friends ever…
A New Map of Berlin
byI am an inexperienced cyclist. As far as possible, I avoid Berlin’s main arteries and stick to the backstreets. Bike lanes constricted by car…
A New Map of Berlin
byFehrbelliner Strasse intersects the indefinite, porous border between the old East Berlin neighbourhoods of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. Forming a T with the sloping…
The Barometer of My Heart
byOn 20th February 2002, at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), in Paris, philosopher Jacques Derrida asked an audience of students…
Ignaz Semmelweis and Anthropogenic Global Warming
byMortality rates in mothers from childbirth in Europe were shockingly high during the mid-19th century. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician working in the General…
Scabies
byWe holidayed through its incubation. Time spent with family, the large, extended swell of us, in a rented house by a winter sea….
Editorial: Clean Unclean
byMy side of the desk is scrupulously clean. The other half is a mess of dust and papers, temporarily abandoned books, a pair of…
The Junior Doctor
byIn the middle of a cabbage farm, an hour’s drive from the Andean town of Otavalo, Ecuador, is a small radio station on the…