Could it be a lingering effect of lockdown? The fact that so many of us are interrupted by technology and growing lists of responsibilities, so it feels natural to interrupt others in conversation?
To satisfy my curiosity — and to help me fix my own interrupting habits — I went to some experts to ask whether we, as a culture, are in fact interrupting each other more; why we do it; and how we can get back to letting people finish what they were saying.
A seductive combination of romance, puzzle and poetry, The Artist also offers a considered interrogation of the value of art: to open windows in human existence, to push against limits, to bring freedom, perspective and light.
The Moon, “like to a silver bow” (Shakespeare), “sole in the blue night” (E. E. Cummings), with its “face like the clock in the hall” (Robert Louis Stevenson), has inspired poetry for centuries. Now a new book by science writer Rebecca Boyle offers a surprising entry into the lunar canon. Our Moon does certainly convey a great deal of science and history about the Earth’s Moon, but the dominant impression it leaves is one of dream-like wonder, more akin to poetry than a dry work of popular non-fiction.