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Winter to early spring is the key time to prune roses, just around the time new growth starts. Rambling roses are the exception to this rule, as they are usually pruned after flowering in summer. But, as winter turns to…

The fifth season of Girlhood Studies is called Primary Sources. How have notions of adaptation, translation, and the thin line between fiction and memory formed depictions of girlhood? Expect the same studies of film and visual culture, but with a…

1. The plant that eats birds and rats Popular among collectors, pitcher plants produce relatively cute-looking hanging vessels which attract flies and drown them in digestive fluids (less cute). But unfortunately for birds, frogs or small mammals living in Borneo,…

Maximilian Davis is on something of a Twenties trip with his work at Ferragamo – that period has inspired his last three collections for the brand, fittingly founded in 1927. As we enter the second half of the Twenties in…

The Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason has a habit of talking to himself when walking around nature. On long drives to Reykjavík, he will imagine an entire film in his brain, going through it scene by scene, fixing the details as he goes…

The art of slow living is something that many of us struggle to perfect. It can feel like an aspirational idea that is quashed by the realities of everyday life. But, we all need some respite from our responsibilities now…

Legend has it that the Garden of Eden wasn’t a myth, but a real place hidden in the Indian Ocean. Standing under the prehistoric canopy of the Vallée de Mai in the Seychelles, it’s easy to see why General Charles…

Roger Deakins has shot some of the most gorgeous films ever made – just don’t say that out loud when he’s in earshot. “Cinematography isn’t about beautiful images,” he tells me. “It’s about producing a whole series of images that…