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Nothing like the Sun #3 - Love is the Anchor
Drawing by Ravie Tofolo The other day, my friend sent me a picture of a lily she saw while walking past a florist’s shop. She thought it...
Vaishnavi Reddy
Nov 14, 20233 min read


Nothing like the Sun #2 - An Ode to Bracelet Clasps and Independence
Photo by Godisable Jacob via Pexels “Would you like me to clasp it for you?” The lady at Tiffany’s had asked me gently after witnessing...
Trisha Gupta
Nov 7, 20233 min read


Nothing like the Sun #1 - On Family and No's
Drawing by Diana Vorona I saw, on the tube, a girl scratching the itch from her Burberry scarf at the nape of her neck and I thought to...
Trisha Gupta
Oct 31, 20233 min read


Nothing Like the Sun - The Mundane Love Column
'Temple of Friendship, Pavlovsk, near Saint Petersburg', by Now Idonoa On all fours with a 5-pound toilet cleaner that came 3 weeks late...
Trisha Gupta
Oct 24, 20237 min read


Summer of '85 — The life and death of summer love
Summer (as unprecedented as this one may appear) often calls for a celebratory tale of youthful love and freedom in the sun, where at...
Juliette Howard
Aug 19, 20204 min read


Normal People — a gritty chronicle of first love intricacies
With Conversations with Friends and Normal People topping the book charts in the UK and worldwide, transferring Sally Rooney’s work to...
Oliwia Majchrowska
Aug 17, 20203 min read


Love is complex – LFWM AW20 1X1 Studio
Photo: Celine Antal I could faintly hear music booming as I stepped inside the unusual venue of 1X1 Studio’s London Fashion Week Men’s...
Halim Kim
Jan 18, 20203 min read


The Climate and Camus
‘There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to...
Victor Chaix
Mar 24, 20195 min read


Rafiki, or the futility of politicizing love
‘Let’s make a pact, become something real’. With a whole religious, social, political and moral order positioned against homosexuality,...
Victor Chaix
Nov 30, 20184 min read


Politicising Private Love
A response to ‘Lust to Love and in Between’ – a programme of short films released as part of the London Film Festival. Traditionally,...
Hannah Clayton
Nov 1, 20184 min read
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