Non-fiction
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MIR Pre Christmas Open Mic Evening
MIR (The Mechanics Institute Review) warmly invites you to its first live Open Mic event of 2025 on Friday, December 5th at the Keynes Library, Gordon Square, from 6pm to 9pm.
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JENNY GREENTEETH: ECO-HORROR AND INDUSTRY, by David Renton
What makes a compelling folk monster? In many of the great films of that genre, the monstrous is human – a witchfinder who uses his power capriciously to torture innocent women, the conspiring inhabitants of an island ignored by the authorities and hostile to them. In others, the monsters are something natural, seemingly benign –…
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X AND I, by Bediye Topal
I belong to a race whose alphabet contains the letters Q, W and X. They are letters. Just letters like any others. But for the Turkish state, these aren’t just letters. They banned them.
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WELL DONE ME, by Cordela Feldman – EXTRACT
I’m sitting up in bed at my parental home, writing this on Mum’s computer. At the moment I spend about four days per week here, and three days at my flat. This house, where I spent the first thirty years of my life, is in Radlett in leafy Hertfordshire, just on the edge of the…
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