A Dublin Magdalene Laundry edited by Mark Coen

A Dublin Magdalene Laundry edited by Mark CoenTowards the end of the 20th century, the decades of abuse and neglect perpetrated in Ireland's comprehensive carceral network began finally to be exposed. The mistreatment endured by children and others on the margins of Irish society, notably women, in these orphanages, reformatory schools, industrial schools, psychiatric hospitals, County Homes, Mother and Baby Homes, adoption agencies and Magdalene Laundries now attracts increasing investigation

Mumbai becomes home to immense wealth and poverty

Rukmini Iyer has the answer with 75 new recipes in one sweet package

which uses their real-life stories to begin another—one that crosses centuries and continents

making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition

The story encourages children to recognise the importance of our oceans and to play their part in protecting them

or an ancient drawing on a wall

illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality

Before the Steven Spielberg film

and—most importantly—our future

and root us in the world

the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own

through that age-old English ability to laugh at ourselves' Observer